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Conscious Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.
- I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that…
- I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as…
- For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even…
More Conscious Quotes
- I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. — Mikhail Bakunin
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — James A. Baldwin
- I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday,… — Kristen Bell
- Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know… — Saul Bellow
- Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. — Theodor Adorno
- I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea… — Sara Blakely
- Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point… — Cate Blanchett
- Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its… — H. P. Blavatsky
- It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that… — H. P. Blavatsky
- I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers… — Alain de Botton
- I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies… — Anthony Bourdain
- Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You… — Ray Bradbury