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Famous Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
“The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.”
“I love insult, it's always honest.”
“Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.”
“Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.”
“The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.”
“Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.”
“The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.”
“The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.”
“Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.”
“We are the species that clamors to be lied to.”
“The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.”
“Without craft, art remains private. Without art, craft is merely hackwork.”
“A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.”
“How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.”