"You are writing for your contemporaries - not……" — Joyce Carol Oates

"You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity."

— Joyce Carol Oates

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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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity… — David Bowie
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help… — Alan Valentine
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise… — Joseph Henry
If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did… — Pope Benedict XVI
For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may… — Pope Benedict XVI
Those who allow themselves to be led by the Spirit understand that placing oneself at the service of the Gospel… — Pope Benedict XVI
May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ… — Pope Benedict XVI
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts… — Fritz Haber
I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society… — Albert Hofmann
In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries… — Marjory Stephenson

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