Joyce Carol Oates

(338 votes)   We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Joyce Carol Oates
1938-, American Author

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(277 votes)   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
1938-, American Author

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(262 votes)   The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Joyce Carol Oates
1938-, American Author

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(244 votes)   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
1938-, American Author

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(242 votes)   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
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(216 votes)   In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Joyce Carol Oates
1938-, American Author

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(144 votes)   What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

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(141 votes)   Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

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(140 votes)   The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

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(138 votes)   We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

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(135 votes)   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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(131 votes)   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.

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(131 votes)   The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

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(130 votes)   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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(129 votes)   In love there are two things - bodies and words.

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