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Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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America is a very religious nation. Not a mono-religious nation because there are many different strands of belief, but there's something about this nation that inspires people, or perhaps draws people, who are strongly idealistic.
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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
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Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.
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To claim - to claim repeatedly - that you are innocent of what it is claimed by others that you have done, or might have done, or are in some quarters strongly suspected of having done, is never enough unless others, numerous others, will say it for you.
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Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
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Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth.
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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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. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
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It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.
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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.
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Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.
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One man's insanity is another man's genius someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.
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We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
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My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
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The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.
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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
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What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been.
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Writing is the most solitary of arts.
Joyce Carol Oates
God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
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