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I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist.
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Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?
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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
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The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.
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