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
+ Most people who are writers go through periods when they can’t write. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Creativity, Persistence, Struggle, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Consciousness, Emotions, Imagination, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Much in our lives is chance. Author, October 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Fate, Randomness, Uncertainty, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving. Author, June 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Absorption, Ambition, Emotion, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. Author, September 14, 2023January 2, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Collaboration, Interdependence, Support, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Loss, Memory, Resurrection, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can’t know it will be the last. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Impermanence, Loss, Uncertainty, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Communication, Language, Mortality, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths. 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
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
