What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: Like a flame is real enough, isn’t it, while it’s burning?-even if there’s a time it goes out? - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
+ The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Eye, Mother, Self, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Extinction, War, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Loneliness is like starvation: you don’t realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Hungry, Loneliness, Realizing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it’s about losing people you love. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Vanity, Wrinkles, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Finals, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The greatest works of literature seem to embody both “art” and “morality”. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Art, Literature, Morality, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ It’s not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Hard, Writing, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive. - Jean Jaures Politician and philosopher · France
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold. - Francois Mauriac Author · France
The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, If we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell. - Masao Abe
The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
I’m sick and tired of life with no desire. I don’t want a flame, I want a fire. - Matthew West Singer-songwriter · USA