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Thing Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
- The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best…
- Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention…
- ... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.
- What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a…
- It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but…
- That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.
- The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
- All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.
- I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.
- When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals…
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