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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1938

Topics

Sympathy Others Up Sympathetic

My father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be.

Work Father Home Me World Library

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Performance Slow Faithful Promise

The way they taught history in schools was not appealing. They stressed wars and dates. They left the people out. I was attracted to history by the need to know about the people. In China, I went to a British school, and we just learned about kings and queens. Back in America, I had the regular social studies curriculum.

History School People America Kings

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

Children Wealth Create Empower Leave

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

You Know Understand More Where Fine

I think you're always drawn to what you love, and I'm always really drawn to things that feel really real and really true to me. I love things that make me think of things in a way I hadn't, and I love looking at people in the world in a way that I hadn't. And sometimes big, huge stories do that for me, but I think I am drawn to smaller ones.

Rosemarie DeWitt

Love I Am People Me World Looking

Donald Trump is a good man, and he will make a great president of the United States of America.

Good Great Man Good Man America

I'm the luckiest guy alive.

Alive Guy Luckiest

A lot of my writing is wish-fulfilment, making things the way I want them to be.

Writing Want Way Things Making Them

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

Together Tough Hands Understand Need

Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.

Nature Time People Legal Washington

Automate your savings so that you have money taken directly from each paycheck and deposited into a 401(k) or other workplace retirement account. If that's not an option, automatically have money transferred out of checking into savings each time you get paid.

Time Money Retirement You Workplace

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