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Better Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.
- Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.
- Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary…
- There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which…
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- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
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