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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american novelist Joyce Carol Oates on topics like love, boxing, universe

  • The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on luck
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  • We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on ancestry
    8
  • Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on reading
    2
  • Joyce Carol Oates quote I never change, I simply become more myself.

    I never change, I simply become more myself.

    — Joyce Carol Oates
    5
  • 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 on boxing
    1
  • Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on desert
    1
  • In love there are two things - bodies and words.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on love
    1
  • 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.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on universe
    1
  • In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on love
    0
  • When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on books
    0
  • The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on boxing
    0
  • When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before.

    I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on age
    0
  • It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on men
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  • About Joyce Carol Oates

    Name Joyce Carol Oates
    Quotes 20 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Novelist
    Birthday October 16
    About Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is also the recipient of the 2005 Prix Femina for The Falls. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and she has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Pseudonyms ...
    Top topics love, boxing, universe, physics, entire
  • To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on boxer
    0
  • 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.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on car
    0
  • If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

    — Joyce Carol Oates on food
    0
  • Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on boxing
    0
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  • The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?

    — Joyce Carol Oates on television
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  • Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on hate
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  • Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on sports
    0
  • 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.

    — Joyce Carol Oates on accident
    0
  • Related Topics

    • luck
    • worst
    • cynicism
    • belief
    • ancestry
    • ancestors
    • linked
    • blood
    • memory
    • language
    • reading
    • sole
    • means
    • slip
    • involuntarily
    • helplessly
    • skin
    • voice
    • soul
    • boxing
    • devastating
    • feeling
    • hitting
    • pain
    • paralysis
    • psychological
    • winning
    • hit
    • desert
    • light
    • night
    • turned
    • love
    • bodies
    • things

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