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Joyce Carol Oates

"I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes."

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"I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes."

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Donna Grant

"Do not lose the enthusiasm of your youth."

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Donna Grant

"Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals."

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Donna Grant

"Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter."

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Donna Grant

"Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me."

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Donna Grant

"Deal mildly with his youth; for young hot colts, being rag's, do rage the more."

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Donna Grant

"Do all the work you can in your youthful days while you have the greatest strength."

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Donna Grant

"Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized."

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Donna Grant

"Because when the night gets here, I'll be the youngest I'll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth."

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Donna Grant

"I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen."

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Donna Grant

"What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light."

Nature

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate."

Love

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."

Nothing

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am furious as I was rarely-perhaps never-furious with him, in life. How can I forgive you, you've ruined both our lives."

Emotion

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Joyce Carol Oates
"In love there are two things - bodies and words."

Love

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Joyce Carol Oates
"Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind."

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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
"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."

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Joyce Carol Oates
"A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on teh ground, a premature snow fall delicate as lace, rapidly melting."

Nature

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