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After Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.
- After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine…
- After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate…
- Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated…
- 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…
- I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do…
More After Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood