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Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored or damned with condescending praise.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective each is vying with the others for dominance, but in the end, in tragedy, most of these voices will die, to be replaced by the yet more vigorous voice of a younger generation.
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Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.
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At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.
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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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Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.
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Not even the most devastating truth can be told it must be evoked.
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'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves.
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Before I undertake a lengthy project, I have usually given much thought to it over a period of years. My files are filled with likely subjects - which perhaps, one day, I will develop.
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The regional voice is the universal voice.
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I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.
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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 is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus.
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I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.
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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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[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.
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