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You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.


Adam Oates

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JOYCE CAROL OATES Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least...
JOYCE CAROL OATES A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony...
JOYCE CAROL OATES As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. A...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
JOYCE CAROL OATES Death is just the last scene of the last act.
JOYCE CAROL OATES I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.
JOYCE CAROL OATES One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insani...
JOYCE CAROL OATES A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work prod...
JOYCE CAROL OATES My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a sp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to whic...
JOYCE CAROL OATES What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. I...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you k...
JOYCE CAROL OATES It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your e...
JOYCE CAROL OATES My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one anot...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
JOYCE CAROL OATES ; so too, her glazed ceramics and her macramé are interchangeable with those executed by her women ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Love is somthing that can not be explained - the force that drives us to protect the ones we care ...
ADAM Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, ...
ADAM Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear...
ADAM DURITZ Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating tur...
ADAM DAVIDSON I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o...
ADAM DRIVER When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at ...
ADAM WEST There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
ADAM PEATY When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
ADAM WEST You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It&...
ADAM GREEN Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about i...
ADAM GRANT So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't...
ADAM LEVINE