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JOYCE CAROL OATES Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
JOYCE CAROL OATES Death is just the last scene of the last act.
JOYCE CAROL OATES I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.
JOYCE CAROL OATES One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insani...
JOYCE CAROL OATES A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work prod...
JOYCE CAROL OATES My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a sp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to whic...
JOYCE CAROL OATES What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. I...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you k...
JOYCE CAROL OATES It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your e...
JOYCE CAROL OATES My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one anot...
JOYCE CAROL OATES The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.
JOYCE CAROL OATES ; so too, her glazed ceramics and her macramé are interchangeable with those executed by her women ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY