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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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Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.
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Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.
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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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Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly.
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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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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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Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?
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