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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Joyce Carol Oates quotes about love

American Novelist, Writer June 16, 1938

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Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another person to save her life. Don't don't don't don't leave me. DON'T LEAVE ME. As in animal copulation the frenzy is to be locked together not out of sentiment or choice but physical compulsion. As if bolts of electric current ran through both their bodies and would only release them from each other when... Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love."
When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love. Joyce Carol Oates
Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance. Joyce Carol Oates
How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you. Joyce Carol Oates
Loretta folded her arms. She felt like a heroine in a movie, confronted by a jealous husband in a kitchen while outside the camera is aching to draw back and show a wonderland of adventures waiting for her—long, frantic rides on trains, landscapes of wounded soldiers, a lovely white desert across which a camel caravan draped voluptuously in veils moves slowly with a kind of mincing melancholy, the steamy jungles of India opening before British officers in white, young officers, the mysteries... Joyce Carol Oates
But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen. Joyce Carol Oates
I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save..."
She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her. Joyce Carol Oates
Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "It feels good, honey, but it isn't love."
It feels good, honey, but it isn't love. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust."
Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer..."
No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. ..."
An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree."
Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree. Joyce Carol Oates
Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class. Joyce Carol Oates

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