20 Quotations by Joyce Carol Oates
- 1. A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
- 2. Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being los ...
- 3. How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning for ...
- 4. If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, d ...
- 5. If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an in ...
- 6. In love there are things --- bodies and words.
- 7. In love there are two things -- bodies and words.
- 8. It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of anot ...
- 9. It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision ...
- 10. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
- 11. Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire univ ...
- 12. Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy -- and one result of the ...
- 13. Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have ...
- 14. The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
- 15. The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
- 16. To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
- 17. We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
- 18. We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sa ...
- 19. When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the tho ...
- 20. When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think get ...
Joyce Carol Oates Quotes by Power Quotations
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