“ You keep asking me that, she said sharply. No. I don’t care to notify anyone. I can’t bear a crowd of relatives around me. I threw away that damned corset in a trash can. I won’t return to that. There Joyce Carol Oates
“ Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Você tem o desejo de pôr a culpa neles, nos que foram assassinados. Sem dúvida que deseja pôr a culpa em qualquer mulher nua e estrangulada na própria cama. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Unfamiliar places could be more dangerous than familiar places, unexpectedly. The boy had been discovering that an unfamiliar place was more easily haunted than a familiar place simply because there w… Joyce Carol Oates
“ To watch boxing closely, and seriously, is to risk moments of what might be called animal panic—a sense not only that something very ugly is happening but that, by watching it, one is an accomplice. T… Joyce Carol Oates
“ Three days later on October 29, 1959, the Pontiac registered in the name of Niles Tignor would be discovered, gas tank near-empty, keys on the floorboards beneath the front seat, in a parking lot clos… Joyce Carol Oates
“ The fundamental truth of my life whether in fact it was truth or a burlesque of truth: when a man wants you, you’re safe. Joyce Carol Oates
“ The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Secrets of the adult universe, forbidden for children to know: how beauty and suffering are intertwined. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Recently she had been going through a period of adolescent melancholia, often talking with her mother, a nurse, about death. She would, she hoped, be some day reincarnated as a cat. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Ohhhhh.A lush-bodied girl in the prime of her physical beauty. In an ivory georgette-crepe sundress with a halter top that gathers her breasts up in soft undulating folds of the fabric. She's standing… Joyce Carol Oates
“ Nowhere in a hospital can you walk without blundering into the memory pools of strangers—their dread of what was imminent in their lives, their false hopes, the wild elation of their hopes, their sudd… Joyce Carol Oates
“ Leander was swaggering and charismatic as a rap star, Maralena gorgeous as the singer whose name I didn’t know how to pronounce—Beyoncé. Joyce Carol Oates
“ Jammed together at lunch. Not a drinker, nevertheless I experience a distinct alteration of consciousness in the presence of others—socially, but even in the classroom or seminar—a heightening, liveni… Joyce Carol Oates
“ It was not yet known how the Revolution would develop. But Upton supposed that the arguments of the philosophical anarchists were most convincing: society would fragmentise into independent, self-gove… Joyce Carol Oates
“ It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.) Joyce Carol Oates
“ If [the heavyweights] become champions they begin to have inner lives like Hemingway or Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy or Faulkner, Joyce or Melville or Conrad or Lawrence or Proust…Dempsey was alone and Tunney… Joyce Carol Oates
“ I think we are all cats with nine lives, or even more. We must rejoice in our elusive catness. Joyce Carol Oates
“ I know that there are many essential biological differences between the sexes, of course. But not so many ‘culturally-mandated’ differences. In First World countries we’ve evolved beyond mere biology… Joyce Carol Oates
