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These are the moments for which we live.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
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I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
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My students often say, My roommate read this story and really liked it, and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong with it. I say, well, people who love you want you to be happy. But I'm your professor and I'm supposed to be teaching you something.
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I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,' I provide a voice for someone who has died and can't speak for herself.
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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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I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.
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She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.
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On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
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The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.
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celebrate while you can
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I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
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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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[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.
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She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her life demanded completion, an end, a permanent fixing of all that was troubled and shifting and deadly. And yet it was absurd to think this. No person could save another. So she drew back from him and released him.
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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
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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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Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
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You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.
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You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.
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Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.
Joyce Carol Oates