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…

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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

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

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

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

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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

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In love there are two things - bodies and words.

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

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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good...

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....A simple I love you means more than money....