"My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous……" — Joyce Carol Oates

"My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted."

— 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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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
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