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World Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
- 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.
- It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with…
- Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
- We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
- I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak...…
- If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences…
- Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated…
- 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…
- And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad"…
- One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach