Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.

Joyce Carol Oates

Mots clés writers-on-writing

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الوحدة كالتضور جوعًا: لا يمكنك أن تدرك إلى أي مدى أنت جائع حتى تبدأ في الأكل.

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Only where there is life can there be home.

Joyce Carol Oates

Mots clés life home essays best-american-essays essayists joyce-carol-oates the-way-we-lives they-all-just-went-away

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It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.

Joyce Carol Oates

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For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

Joyce Carol Oates

Mots clés blonde

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What is "technique" but the absence of passion?

Joyce Carol Oates

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Running! If there is any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I cannot think of what it might be.

Joyce Carol Oates

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This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

Joyce Carol Oates

Mots clés loss absurd life-and-living grief coping coping-with-death

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You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.

Joyce Carol Oates

Mots clés coming-of-age joyce-carol-oates jco

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In all marriages there is the imbalance: one who loves more than the other. One who licks wounds in secret, the rust-taste of blood.

Joyce Carol Oates

Mots clés marriage

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