You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.


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JOYCE CAROL OATES
I am made to think, not for the first time, that in my writing I have plunged ahead-head-on, heedles...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psycho...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolution...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or y...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, an...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you ca...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You wi...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temp...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. A...
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