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I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.
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Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.
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Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments it stirs our capacity for dreaming.
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I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired.
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For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.
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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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No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
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... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.
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There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of wrongful events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.
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Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.
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After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.
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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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Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.
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'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.
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