It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of … - Joyce Carol Oates

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But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.

Joyce Carol Oates

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

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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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