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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that. ↗

— Barack Obama

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Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#alone #live #must #nothing #obsessively

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#important #insignificant #matter #productivity #really

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#industrial #industry #life #menace

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#aside #begin #complete #desk #drawer

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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