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The best revenge is living well without you.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.
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Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct?
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I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be a teacher, since I so admired many of my teachers. And though I loved writing, I did not ever think of myself as a writer.
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The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.
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Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.
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I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.
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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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Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.
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I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.
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Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.
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Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.
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Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.
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Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.
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The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to overcome doubt.
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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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Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.
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Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?
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