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I love insult, it's always honest.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable.
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Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
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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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Writing is the most solitary of arts.
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Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
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Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.
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When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
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I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
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When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.
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The best revenge is living well without you.
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For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.
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Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.
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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.
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Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?
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She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, Why are you trying to starve yourself? To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.
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Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one.
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I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.
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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
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That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.
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There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.
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