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Too Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.
- Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art…
- When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
- After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate…
- I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a…
- My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I…
- From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny.…
- Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember…
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