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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

«In love there are two things - bodies and words»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates (Author) | Keywords: bodies
«If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.»
«Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.»
«The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.»
«We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone - its value is incontestable»
«If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates (Author) | About: Food, Poetry
«When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.»
«Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.»
«When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.»
«The worst cynicism: a belief in luck»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates (Author) | About: Luck | Keywords: cynicism, ill luck

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