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Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.
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I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.
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I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
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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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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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Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?
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All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.
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The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.
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On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
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How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.
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I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.
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You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.
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Great art is cathartic it is always moral.
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No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
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[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.
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For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?
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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.
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It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.
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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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I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.
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