Lots of people I was starting to hate who I used to like a lot. But when you like people, you can hurt. I'd made a few mistakes with girl friends, and one or two guys I'd thought were my buddies, and I wouldn't make these mistakes again. - Joyce Oates Quotes
Lots of people I was starting to hate who I used to like a lot. But when you like people, you can hurt. I'd made a few mistakes with girl friends, and one or two guys I'd thought were my buddies, and I wouldn't make these mistakes again. Joyce Oates
 

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To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up. - Joyce Oates Quotes

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

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 American Novelist
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 - Joyce Oates Quotes

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

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Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves. - Joyce Oates Quotes

Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. - Joyce Oates Quotes

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

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 Age And Aging
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? - Joyce Oates Quotes

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Joyce Oates

 American Novelist Food
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. - Joyce Oates Quotes

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

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 American Novelist Authority
When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. - Joyce Oates Quotes

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Joyce Oates

 Books And Reading
Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. - Joyce Oates Quotes

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Joyce Oates

 American Novelist
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. - Joyce Oates Quotes

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.

Joyce Oates

 
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. - Joyce Oates Quotes

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.

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