There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of … - Joyce Carol Oates

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Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.

Joyce Carol Oates

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

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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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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

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Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces, although there is danger there, as in the behavior it prevents: the talks, the games, the family festivities. . . through which much of the child's learning takes place and through which his character is formed. Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people.

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Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.

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Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

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To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

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