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Joyce Carol Oates

"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language."

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Donna Grant

"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."

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Donna Grant

"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."

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Donna Grant

"All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood."

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Donna Grant

"What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?"

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Donna Grant

"I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need."

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Donna Grant

"We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today."

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Donna Grant

"Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood."

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Donna Grant

"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything."

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Donna Grant

"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."

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Donna Grant

"In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"I feel very transparent in myself. I'm more of an observer. I'm interested in what's going on. I'm not sure that I really have a personality. Some people think I do have a personality. I have a personality when I am with certain people - but when I'm not with them I don't have that personality. I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Art serves a purpose. It expands our horizons, frees our minds, and opens us up to new experiences. It opens the imagination. All these great discoveries of our time - without the desire to reach beyond our boundaries, we would be forever stagnant. The folly is in closing one's eyes and not recognizing it."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"How strange it is, to be walking away. Is it possible that I am really going to leave Ray-here? Is it possible that he won't be coming home with me in another day or two, as we'd planned? Such a thought is too profound for me to grasp. It's like fitting a large unwieldy object in a small space. My brain hurts, trying to contain it."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"You never give such relationships a thought, To give a thought, to take a thought is a function of dissociation, distance. You can't exercise memory until you've removed yourself from memory's source."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest."

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