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Matter Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I…
- If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking…
- All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.
- Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
- Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we…
- He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 Matter Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as… — Andrea Arnold
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person… — Richard Attenborough
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine