"A daydreamer is prepared for most things." — Joyce Carol Oates

"A daydreamer is prepared for most things."

— Joyce Carol Oates

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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

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More Daydreamer Quotes

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I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because… — Gillian Anderson
I've always been a daydreamer, and sometimes in lessons my mind would drift and I'd imagine that on the way… — Malala Yousafzai
I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing. — Blaise Cendrars
I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body.… — Natalie Dormer
I am a bit of a daydreamer. — Matt Lucas
I've always been a daydreamer. — Puff Daddy
I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe… — Emily Browning
The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t… — Ian Mcewan
I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds. — Talulah Riley
I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student. — John Benjamin Hickey
I'm a daydreamer. — Sara Paretsky

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