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Joyce Carol Oates [ d͡ʒɔɪs ˈkærəl oʊts], née le 16 juin 1938 à Lockport dans l'État de New York, est une femme de lettres américaine, à la fois poètesse, romancière, nouvelliste, dramaturge et essayiste. Elle a également publié plusieurs romans policiers sous les pseudonymes Rosamond Smith et Lauren Kelly. Wikipedia  

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Joyce Carol Oates: Citations en anglais

“[The] third man in the ring makes boxing possible.”

On the introduction of referees in the late 19th century
On Boxing (1987)

“The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.”

Do What You Will (1970), pt. 2, ch. 15

“Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.”

As quoted in "Master Race," Partisan Review 50th Anniversary Edition (1985), edited by William Phillips

“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”

"Writers’ Hunger: Food as Metaphor," New York Times (19 August 1986)

“The writer is a “somewhat mystical” — or do I mean “mythical?””

person.
Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself (2013)

“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!”

Joyce Carol Oates livre You Must Remember This

that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms — nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?
You Must Remember This (1987), pt. 1, ch. 13

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