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Private Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.
- It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.
- Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice…
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- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay… — Lauren Bacall
- It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. — Lauren Bacall
- When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and… — Lauren Bacall
- Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn't embarrassed by it. — Michele Bachmann
- It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands… — Michele Bachmann
- As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have… — David Baldacci
- I try to keep my private life kind of private. — Tyra Banks
- From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time,… — Tyra Banks
- I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility… — Banksy