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Simply Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
- Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
- My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating endings.…
- I never change, I simply become more myself.
- The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret…
- And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to…
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