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JOYCE CAROL OATES
American novelist, poet and educator
(1938 - )
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She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it.
      - [Mind]

Nobody wanted me to know. But I wanted to know.
      - After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, And Flew Away
        [Curiosity]

God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
      - Bellefleur [Blessings : Wrath]

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.
      - The Deaths: An Elegy [Memory]

You learn not to look back, anything you're walking away from. You don't cry. If you do, it isn't you.
      - The Rise of Life on Earth [Learning : Future]

For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?
      - Ugly [Irony : Hope : Hurt]

Felix thought, that the sport wasn't a sport at all. It was just life speeded up.
      - You Must Remember This [Sport]

Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.
      - You Must Remember This [Maturity]

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