Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Reality
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There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.
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If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.
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When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
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The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.
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We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form - yet the art-work is elaborately artificial, the very genre of tragedy in poetry an anti-naturalist perspective.
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