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The books I read I do enjoy, very much otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of artists.
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Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.
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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
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Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
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It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.
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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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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.
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I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
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A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
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Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories - something like ghosts in the psychological sense.
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A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'
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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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Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
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