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Food doesn't exist, but can only be invented. And reinvented.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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I love insult, it's always honest.
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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
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Writing is the most solitary of arts.
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It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.
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Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.
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It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
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Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this.
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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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It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.
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