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I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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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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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
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The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.
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She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.
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Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?
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Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.
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God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
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For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.
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Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.
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The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.
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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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When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.
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Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.
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