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Works Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
- Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art…
- We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
- Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary…
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- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works… — Michele Bachmann