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Passion Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Never be ashamed of your subject, and of your passion for your subject.
- To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.
- Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
- One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.
- Homo sapiens are the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
More Passion Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Our passion is our strength. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
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