Best Joyce Carol Oates Proverbs
- Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows. Been
- you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in… Absence
- I never change, I simply become more myself. Change
- The best revenge is living well without you. Best
- 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… Beginning
- 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.… Inspirational
- Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther… Aged
- The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt. Art
- Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is… Add
- Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. All
- ... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing. Hot
- None of the rest of my life figures here. Figures
- You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort… All
- 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… Concrete
- When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love. Give
- What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be… Actual
- Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see. Eye
- Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind… Activity
- Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. Activity
- There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what… Been
- You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in… Blood
- The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct Admire
- Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. Begin
- Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching… Adriana
- He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life. Life
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