"Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.…" — Joyce Carol Oates

"Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents."

— 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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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of… — Saint Augustine
Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. — Lauren Bacall
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing… — Robert Baden-Powell
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. — Henry Adams
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and… — Neal Barnard
I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you… — Roseanne Barr
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. — Dave Barry
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at… — Joe Barton
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that… — Renata Adler
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They… — Kathryn Bigelow

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