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And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.

Joyce Carol Oates
Feels, Contending, My Own
"America's Foremost Woman of Letters". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 03, 2006.
And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.