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A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.
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Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.
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If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
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The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.
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The quiet people just do their work.
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The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.
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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
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To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numerous others, will say it for you.
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