Best Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates (Top 10)
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I never change, I simply become more myself.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
Joyce Carol Oates
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The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.
Joyce Carol Oates
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See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be
Joyce Carol Oates
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In love there are two things - bodies and words.
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He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Joyce Carol Oates
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A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
Joyce Carol Oates
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And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
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More Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card"¦and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.
Joyce Carol Oates
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I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.
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If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Joyce Carol Oates
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We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
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Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
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It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.
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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Joyce Carol Oates
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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible
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When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
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We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone " its value is incontestable.
Joyce Carol Oates