Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

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

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

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.

The cruel irony of housework: people only notice when you don't do it.

My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither...

My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither...