Best Joyce Carol Oates Qoutes
- What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a… Born
- Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of,… Affair
- I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul. Believe
- Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is… Difficult
- Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there. Dial
- If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a… Face
- From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny.… Belief
- She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her. Funny
- It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but… Angry
- My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions,… Another Art
- That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea. Ends
- A daydreamer is prepared for most things. Daydreamer
- Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is… Anyone
- For the first time driving that day I could feel the motion of the Earth. The Earth rushing through the emptiness of space. Spinning on… Alter
- A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And… Distinction
- 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… Gone
- Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out? Burning
- 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
- I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent… American
- Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. Hurt
- Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you? Asked
- ...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf… Condition
- Death is just the last scene of the last act. Act
- the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon. Background
- The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret… Act
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