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People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: live, people, home, great

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I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: like, feel, failure, life
A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: inspirational, hope
I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: travel, world, people, experience
I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: husband, will, feel, you
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: things, fall, humor, you
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