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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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Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.
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Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
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[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.
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I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.
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