What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live. Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
+ Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Persistence, Progress, Struggle, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Character, Competition, Revelation, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Great art is cathartic; it is always moral. Author, August 26, 2023January 2, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Art, Catharsis, Morality, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming – In thinking, not writing. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Meditation, Thinking, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Communication, Identity, Isolation, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Sometimes I stumble upon a wonderfully irresistible to me voice, unexpectedly. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Discovery, Unexpected, Voice, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Love is an indescribable sensation – perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Certainty, Emotion, Intangible, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ That’s how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Concept, Reality, Transition, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity. Read explanation Charlie Munger Business person
See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan’s deflation is another’s inflation. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
