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Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Joyce Carol Oates
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: June 16
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I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.
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In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.
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I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.
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Great art is cathartic it is always moral.
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If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.
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The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct
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To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.
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Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?
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Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.
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Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.
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I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.
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These are the moments for which we live.
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Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
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The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
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Much in our lives is chance.
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I rarely write in my own voice except in book reviews and memoirs otherwise, I am writing in mediated voices, modulated in terms of the characters whom the voices express.
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