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One man's insanity is another man's genius someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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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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What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.
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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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I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.
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Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.
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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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I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.
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