"The worst cynicism: a belief in luck." — Joyce Carol Oates

"The worst cynicism: a belief in luck."

— 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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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief… — Isaac Asimov
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as… — Margaret Atwood
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel… — Saint Augustine
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,… — Jane Austen
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what… — Richard Bach
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the… — Richard Bach

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