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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
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The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
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My love: you make me permanent
like old unlovely clay relics
unearthed in the Egypt
of the ancient dead.
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It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.
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I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.
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Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.
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When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.
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How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhaps our greatest happiness spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.
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I used to think that getting old was about vanity—but actually it's about losing people you love.
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She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.
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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity — but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
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To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.
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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
Oswald Chambers
Joyce Carol Oates
Born:
June 16, 1938
(age 86)
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