"For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly,……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable."
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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
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The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long…
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Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I…
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That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not…
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On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had…
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