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Life Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
- Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.
- "Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.
- She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her life demanded completion,…
- The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel…
- The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.
- The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles…
- To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.
- I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate…
- Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
- When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
- All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
- One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
- The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
- I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first…
- My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young…
- My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I…
- Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting…
- To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must…
- 'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American…
- When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain…
- 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.…
- The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
- 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…
- None of the rest of my life figures here.
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle