The American dream is a multi-metaphor made up of distinct regions. Many regions of this country are almost … - Joyce Carol Oates

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One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

Joyce Carol Oates

The American dream is a multi-metaphor made up of distinct regions. Many regions of this country are almost like different countries. Even in one state, northern and southern California are like two separate countries.

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I never change, I simply become more myself.

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Novels usually evolve out of 'character. ' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

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