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One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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The American dream is a multi-metaphor made up of distinct regions. Many regions of this country are almost like different countries. Even in one state, northern and southern California are like two separate countries.
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Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.
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I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
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A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.
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In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.
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My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
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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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Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.
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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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I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.
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