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Joyce Carol Oates quotes: No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be. No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The regional voice is the universal voice. The regional voice is the universal voice.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see. Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The Bog Kingdom. Bidding him enter! Ah, enter! There, all wishes are fulfilled. The more forbidden, the more delicious. The Bog Kingdom. Bidding him enter! Ah, enter! There, all wishes are fulfilled. The more forbidden, the more delicious.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides. The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: We see the shadows of things, not the things themselves . . . We are forced to imagine what the writer doesn't reveal. We see the shadows of things, not the things themselves . . . We are forced to imagine what the writer doesn't reveal.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Fear in her eyes that were a damp blurred blue Patrick would afterward recall, Fear in her eyes that were a damp blurred blue Patrick would afterward recall,
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The murderer is not protected! He is vulnerable. TO The murderer is not protected! He is vulnerable. TO
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Laughter too depends upon memory - a memory of previous laughter. Dr. Laughter too depends upon memory - a memory of previous laughter. Dr.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: For once a truth is known it cannot be unknown, it can only be denied. For once a truth is known it cannot be unknown, it can only be denied.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview. A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it. I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: For the wanting to be good,in defiance of justice, is one of mankind's greatest weaknesses. For the wanting to be good,in defiance of justice, is one of mankind's greatest weaknesses.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: While madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader. While madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Great handfuls of her life were being stolen from her and she would never be able to retrieve them. Great handfuls of her life were being stolen from her and she would never be able to retrieve them.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: I love insult, it's always honest. I love insult, it's always honest.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Mom was stubborn, and eloquent. Mom was stubborn, and eloquent.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: At such rare times you can feel the electrically charged neurons of the prefrontal brain realigning themselves like iron fillings drawn by a magnet. At such rare times you can feel the electrically charged neurons of the prefrontal brain realigning themselves like iron fillings drawn by a magnet.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea. That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised. It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The mere passage of time makes us all exiles. The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: HUSBAND: Is something wrong?BETHIE: Whywhy do you ask?HUSBAND: You looked so lonely, suddenly. As if you'd forgotten I'm here. HUSBAND: Is something wrong?
BETHIE: Why
why do you ask?
HUSBAND: You looked so lonely, suddenly. As if you'd forgotten I'm here.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: In love there are two things - bodies and words. In love there are two things - bodies and words.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Art is the highest expression of the human spirit. Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: We never have time, do we, for all that we don't exactly want to do. We never have time, do we, for all that we don't exactly want to do.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable. The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: It's fine, I have it. It's fine. It's fine, I have it. It's fine.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Sunny wintry days. The idyll of (inner) loneliness. What am I going to do with my life? Sunny wintry days. The idyll of (inner) loneliness. What am I going to do with my life?
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict. Her Quaker instincts led her to apologize for wrongs not her own to minimize conflict.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: For politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were not For politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were not
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: no one knew what to do with Ariah Erskine, who refused to behave as others wished her to behave. no one knew what to do with Ariah Erskine, who refused to behave as others wished her to behave.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: FOR HYSTERICAL MAIDENS I WOULD PRESCRIBE MARRIAGE, FOR THEY ARE CURED BY PREGNANCY. - Hippocrates FOR HYSTERICAL MAIDENS I WOULD PRESCRIBE MARRIAGE, FOR THEY ARE CURED BY PREGNANCY. - Hippocrates
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love. The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness. And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward. The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: There is no religion higher than truth. There is no religion higher than truth.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us. Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose. Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The man is too narcissistic, too shallow and cowardly for suicide. Days The man is too narcissistic, too shallow and cowardly for suicide. Days
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain? For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Running! If there is any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I cannot think of what it might be. Running! If there is any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I cannot think of what it might be.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live. Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: I am snatching at things to prove my life. I am snatching at things to prove my life.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: In so sick a society as ours how is it possible that any citizen is healthy, at all? In so sick a society as ours how is it possible that any citizen is healthy, at all?
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: It simply fell from him, like a heavy overcoat he'd shrugged off, no longer needing its warmth or bulk to protect him. It simply fell from him, like a heavy overcoat he'd shrugged off, no longer needing its warmth or bulk to protect him.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted. For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Foolish woman, don't despair. My justice is My mercy. 5 Foolish woman, don't despair. My justice is My mercy. 5
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result. I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Marianne laughed. But you can't disappoint me! I don't love you. Marianne laughed. But you can't disappoint me! I don't love you.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing. Such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Every scar in my face is worth it. Every scar in my face is worth it.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: I am always reading or thinking about reading. I am always reading or thinking about reading.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: On their own, your eyes did not naturally discover the sky. On their own, your eyes did not naturally discover the sky.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission. Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs. The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought. The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion. To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: It might be argued that our lives are a concatenation of minutiae interrupted at unpredictable times by significant events. It might be argued that our lives are a concatenation of minutiae interrupted at unpredictable times by significant events.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate. Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last. It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Love you in that cheerleader's costume. Last Friday. You didn't see me I guess. But I was there. Love you in that cheerleader's costume. Last Friday. You didn't see me I guess. But I was there.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them. The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity? Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: All actors are whores.They want only one thing: to seduce you. All actors are whores.
They want only one thing: to seduce you.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: He was eight years older than I was, most of the calendar year. He was eight years older than I was, most of the calendar year.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Acting is the loneliest profession I know. Acting is the loneliest profession I know.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be. Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.) It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.)
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: "Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life. "Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that's the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride. Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that's the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Starting a novel is like standing in a field and waiting for lightning to strike. Starting a novel is like standing in a field and waiting for lightning to strike.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: These are the moments for which we live. These are the moments for which we live.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism. Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away. People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you are! You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you are!
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out. In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: The quiet people just do their work. The quiet people just do their work.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Della Rae was a pig and she was smashed out of her skull and you didn't want to think about it, Della Rae was a pig and she was smashed out of her skull and you didn't want to think about it,
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it. Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: There is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful. There is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: I'd like to be your friend - but only if you promise not to ever, ever count on me. I'd like to be your friend - but only if you promise not to ever, ever count on me.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time. No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Gossip - invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate the truth. Gossip - invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate the truth.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: It feels good, honey, but it isn't love. It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: How exhausted I am suddenly! - though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling - almost - exhilarated. How exhausted I am suddenly! - though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling - almost - exhilarated.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Corset,' Mrs. Erskine? I don't understand." Because she was trussed up in one herself, she couldn't comprehend how Ariah had escaped hers. Corset,' Mrs. Erskine? I don't understand." Because she was trussed up in one herself, she couldn't comprehend how Ariah had escaped hers.
Joyce Carol Oates quotes: Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing. Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

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