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To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.
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Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.
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How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.
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I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.
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Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of form to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.
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God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
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Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
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The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.
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Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
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