"He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in……" — Joyce Carol Oates

"He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life."

— Joyce Carol Oates

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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…
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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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of… — Hannah Arendt
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and… — Hannah Arendt
I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can… — Alexis Arguello
I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over… — Aristotle

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