"Great art is cathartic; it is always moral." — Joyce Carol Oates

"Great art is cathartic; it is always moral."

— 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 Always Moral Quotes

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The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are… — Aristippus
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy,… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power… — Saul Alinsky
Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave… — Swami Vivekananda

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