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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Joyce Carol Oates quotes

American Novelist, Writer June 16, 1938

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You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise."
A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis..."
A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's..."
Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out? Joyce Carol Oates
Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart. Joyce Carol Oates
Baseball, football, basketball - these quintessentially American pastimes are recognizably sports because they involve play: they are games. One plays football, one doesn't play boxing...The boxing match is the very image, the more terrifying for being so stylized, of mankind's collective aggression; its ongoing historical madness. Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you."
My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you. Joyce Carol Oates
In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic into himself, like reverse lightning. There's nothing to spare for anyone else. Joyce Carol Oates
Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning. Joyce Carol Oates
HUSBAND: Is something wrong? BETHIE: Why--why do you ask? HUSBAND: You looked so lonely, suddenly. As if you'd forgotten I'm here. Joyce Carol Oates
Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission. Joyce Carol Oates
The gym cat appears to those who will die. He is our totem." This thought came to me a few weeks ago. I shared it with no one of course. Joyce Carol Oates
The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well. Joyce Carol Oates
The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial. Joyce Carol Oates
A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it. Joyce Carol Oates

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