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Day Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid…
- Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.
- The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles…
- Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.
- For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on…
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