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Joyce Carol Oates: A Body in the Service of Mind | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer
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8/4/2023
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[ Silence ]
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>> When you open a book, you can be anybody
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and you can be different nationality and different sex
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and have a different age.
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And so it's like a magic portal to another world.
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It's a window into another world.
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So I still feel that way.
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>> Now Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most phenomenal
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and brilliant writers of our time.
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>> Joyce Carol Oates has published over 100 books
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since 1963.
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>> She is obviously one of the most prolific writers there are.
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>> The 2010 National Humanities Medal to Joyce Carol Oates
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for her contributions to American Letters.
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>> I have often felt that in a sense I'm a very neutral being
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and that I have almost no personality.
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As if I'm a neutral or a transparent medium
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where this one thing comes by way of the medium
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and to being a book or some writing.
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So I always felt that I could tell stories
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that other people were not telling.
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And I'm sort of looking at how some people are mistreated
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and there is injustice, a social injustice in our society.
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And one has to write about that.
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>> You described the process of writing a novel as obsession,
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excitement, anxiety, then melancholy when done and fear
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that nothing will ever mean that much again.
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>> Probably I was just being a little funny.
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You know I do miss some novels that I really put a lot
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of my life into.
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And when I think back on them I sort of wish
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that I was writing them again or that I could go back
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and inhabit that time in my life again.
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[ Music ]
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>> The use of language is all we have
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to pit against death and silence.
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[ Silence ]
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