Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

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

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

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

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

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

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The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

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

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

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

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Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

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

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