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Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you’re no longer their child.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I’ve written.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “A jury is as bright as the dumbest member of the jury.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “My self is all to me. I don’t have any need of you.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn’t require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “I can’t say I was a very successful sorority girl.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “As our great American philosopher William James has said, an individual has as many selves as there are individuals whom he knows. There isn’t the slightest hypocrisy in this, but only pragmatic ethics. For not all persons are worthy of our acquaintance, and not all persons require equal time from us. You save your most valuable ‘personality’ for the most valuable persons you know.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “There could be no romance in the terrible possibility that Gretel Nissenbaum had fled on foot, alone, not to her family but simply to escape from her life; in what exigency of need, what despondency of spirit, no name might be given it by any who have not experienced it.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “You are writing for your contemporaries – not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am furious as I was rarely – perhaps never – furious with him, in life. How can I forgive you, you’ve ruined both our lives.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “If I’m writing, I’ll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “I will be the clinician of my own pathology.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “At such rare times you can feel the electrically charged neurons of the prefrontal brain realigning themselves like iron fillings drawn by a magnet.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “He said no break is permanent. Like a bone that heals crooked, still it will heal.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “It is required that we must be fiercely beloved by one individual in order to exist: for Sabbath, Haley was that individual.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Loving Felix she’d acquired from him a certain arrogance, telling so many lies she’d acquired a zest for lies and quite preferred them to the truth. For a lie had to be invented, “truth” was common property.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Were you wounded when your marriage collapsed? When your love collapsed? Or does love never “collapse,” only just fade gradually away?”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don’t know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you’ve been told, what the words suggest.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed – to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Messes are made by people who want but don’t know what they want, let alone how to get it.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Love is what can’t be helped. When it waxes, and when it wanes. Love is what happens when you’ve been looking another way. Love is that sensation of something on the back of your neck, tell yourself it’s nothing, a strand of hair, at last you touch it and discover it’s an insect – you cast off with a curse.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can’t escape. Life was easier then. You just didn’t pick up the phone.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You’re dead, yet alive. There’s no sensation so exquisite.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “We never have time, do we, for all that we don’t exactly want to do.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Writing is the most solitary of arts.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “I am thinking of having a T-shirt printed: Yes my husband died. Yes I am very sad. Yes you are kind to offer condolences. Now can we change the subject?”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There’s something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can’t confront it.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “It is a terrible thing to feel that you might break down, you might utter a confession that could not then be retrieved.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “NO KISS FORGOTTEN; it resides in the memory as in the flesh, and so Katya many times felt the press of Marcus Kidder’s warm mouth on hers in the days and especially in the nights following. And her heartbeat quickened in protest: How could you! Kiss him! That old man! Kiss him! Let him put his arms around you ad kiss you and kiss him back! The old man’s mouth and Katya Spivak’s mouth! How could you.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man’s deepest passion.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “That glass sliver in the heart. Amid a fluttery-delicious Benzedrine rush, virtually every remark made to you is freighted with destiny, a sweet-painful stab in the heart. And Benzedrine and champagne, what a combination! The Blond Actress was only just discovering what everybody else in Hollywood knew.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Much of my writing is energized by unresolved memories – something like ghosts in the psychological sense.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “The body can’t distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “Secrets have always been easy for me, it’s the opposite of secrets that is hard.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “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 Quote: “On the way home Mary Lou said, “Some things are so sad you can’t say them.” But I pretended not to hear.”
Joyce Carol Oates Quote: “All prices of all things – at least, useless beautiful things like rare books – are inherently absurd, rooted in the human imagination and in the all-too-human predilection to desperately want what others value highly, and to scorn what others fail to value.”
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