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Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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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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Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.
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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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I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
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...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone...Well, that fact alone is staggering.
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Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored or damned with condescending praise.
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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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God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
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Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.
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