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There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty — Joyce Carol Oates

You have lived all these years and you're still a grumpy teenage boy. That must take effort. — Carol Oates

No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be. — Joyce Carol Oates

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me. — John Oates

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. — Joyce Carol Oates

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside. — Joyce Carol Oates

The person you love best, you share the world with. When that person's gone the world remains but it isn't the same thing, it's at a distance. — Joyce Carol Oates

Everything is entirely in Nature, and Nature is entire in everything. She has her center in every brute. - SCHOPENHAUER The — Joyce Carol Oates

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later. — Joyce Carol Oates

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives. — Joyce Carol Oates

The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides. — Joyce Carol Oates

Fear in her eyes that were a damp blurred blue Patrick would afterward recall, — Joyce Carol Oates

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong. — John Oates

The murderer is not protected! He is vulnerable. TO — Joyce Carol Oates

I have a great family, I live an amazing life. — John Oates

I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it. — Joyce Carol Oates

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist. — Joyce Carol Oates

No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion. — Joyce Carol Oates

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? — Joyce Carol Oates

Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind? — Joyce Carol Oates

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

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness. — Joyce Carol Oates

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. — Joyce Carol Oates

Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree. — Joyce Carol Oates

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. — Joyce Carol Oates

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised. — Joyce Carol Oates

Faith' and 'science' inhabit totally different spheres, and do not overlap, even to share the same vocabulary. — Joyce Carol Oates

A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer. — Joyce Carol Oates

Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse. — Joyce Carol Oates

On their own, your eyes did not naturally discover the sky. — Joyce Carol Oates

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. — Joyce Carol Oates

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates

You don't wanna be around your family constantly. — John Oates

Messes are made by people who want but don't know what they want, let alone how to get it. — Joyce Carol Oates

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot. — John Oates

A bully is one who forces you to laugh at his jokes, even if they are not jokes. That is how you know he is a bully. A — Joyce Carol Oates

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not. — Joyce Carol Oates

and much more interesting. — Joyce Carol Oates

I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it. — Joyce Carol Oates

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

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. — Joyce Carol Oates

Exotic: meaning you're "desired."
For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness.
So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive. — Joyce Carol Oates

Let them write angry letters to the Government-
they haven't been loved enough, there has been some crime — Joyce Carol Oates

Egalitarianism trumps elitism. Only a selfish fool will tell you otherwise — Jonny Oates

Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. — Joyce Carol Oates

The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought. — Joyce Carol Oates

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

It might be argued that our lives are a concatenation of minutiae interrupted at unpredictable times by significant events. — Joyce Carol Oates

If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you, -Oates
The White Darkness — Geraldine McCaughrean

Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out? — Joyce Carol Oates

I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started. — John Oates

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate. — Joyce Carol Oates

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. — Joyce Carol Oates

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

Love you in that cheerleader's costume. Last Friday. You didn't see me I guess. But I was there. — Joyce Carol Oates

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct — Joyce Carol Oates

There are some secrets so toxic you can't share. Especially if you love who it is you'd have to share with. — Joyce Carol Oates

I really love to set things in places that are real to me. — Joyce Carol Oates

It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last. — Joyce Carol Oates

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness. — Joyce Carol Oates

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else. — John Oates

Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be. — Joyce Carol Oates

It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.) — Joyce Carol Oates

The things that link us deepest, we can't feel.
Except if they're taken from us. — Joyce Carol Oates

Words are like wild birds - they will come when they wish, not when they are bidden. — Joyce Carol Oates

Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life — Joyce Carol Oates

The first record I bought myself could have been 'Oh Lonesome Me' by Don Gibson or 'Wake Up Little Susie' by the Everly Brothers. — John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises. — John Oates

"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life. — Joyce Carol Oates

Hating "The Great Gatsby" (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be. — Joyce Carol Oates

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self. — Joyce Carol Oates

For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom. — Joyce Carol Oates

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons. — John Oates

God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath. — Joyce Carol Oates

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart. — Joyce Carol Oates

Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know. — Joyce Carol Oates

People might be surprised to know how much I throw away. For every page I publish, I throw 10 pages away. — Joyce Carol Oates

Running more doesn't do you any good. You've got to be successful more. — Johnny Oates

Our house is made of glass ... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves. — Joyce Carol Oates

Death is just the last scene of the last act. — Joyce Carol Oates

Our lives can only be interpreted in retrospect, yet must be lived from day to day, blindly. What folly, the human condition! — Joyce Carol Oates

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing. — Joyce Carol Oates

Of all psychic conditions, anxiety verging upon paranoia/hysteria is perhaps the most contagious, even among men. — Joyce Carol Oates

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust. — Joyce Carol Oates

Politics, the negotiating of power. Eros, the negotiating of power. — Joyce Carol Oates

All actors are whores.
They want only one thing: to seduce you. — Joyce Carol Oates

Well, no. Marianne thought there could be lots worse. — Joyce Carol Oates

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless! — Joyce Carol Oates

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach. — Adam Oates

He was eight years older than I was, most of the calendar year. — Joyce Carol Oates

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons. — John Oates

Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened. — John Oates

Acting is the loneliest profession I know. — Joyce Carol Oates

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates. — Frank Black

It is the most horrific thought - my husband died among strangers. — Joyce Carol Oates

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone. — Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt. — Joyce Carol Oates

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. — Joyce Carol Oates

As long as you're in motion, your perspective is obscured. Only when you reach the summit and turn to look back, can you be at peace. — Joyce Carol Oates

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating. — John Oates