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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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"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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"Personal Responsibility is the individual desire to be in charge or in control of an action or situation."

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"Keep moving, no matter how slow you move, you will definitely arrive at your destination."

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"As long as we desire to reach new heights, we will find the strength to climb the mountain."

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"Look beyond now. The road ahead offers a good voyage."

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"Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation."

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"You cannot do anything unless you allow your passion to motivate you. People may tell you, "you can do it", "you can make it" "it's possible" but when you tell yourself always " I can't make it", it's your choice that rules everything!"

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"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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"I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life."
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"Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance."
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"It may be that actual tears have stained the tile floors or soaked into the carpets of such places. It may be that these tears can never be removed. And everywhere the odor of melancholy, that is the very odor of memory."
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"Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around the neck? A noose? What's 'morality' but what other people want you to do, for their own, selfish, unstated purposes?"
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"The third man in the ring makes boxing possible."
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"Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism."
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"Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart."
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"Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, a frail balloon drifting into the sky as into infinity."
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