Famous Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

  • The worst cynicism: a belief in luck More
  • When you’re 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to... More
  • It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of... More
  • Boxing has become America’s tragic theater. More
  • The spectacle of human beings fighting each other for whatever reason, including, at certain... More
  • In any case, raw aggression is thought to be the peculiar province of men, as nurturing is the... More
  • I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing—for one of those bouts that... More
  • Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain,... More
  • Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. More
  • Prose—it might be speculated—is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry... More
  • Nothing is accidental in the universe—this is one of my Laws of Physics—except the entire... More
  • Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night;... More
  • The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as... More

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