What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: One of life’s minor satisfactions is forgetting. Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
+ 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
+ Art is the highest expression of the human spirit. Author, June 22, 2023January 2, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Creativity, Emotion, Humanity, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive. Author, June 17, 2023January 2, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Healing, Resilience, Survival, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Content, Memory, Technique, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Savior, Superficiality, Tradition, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ To be knocked out doesn’t mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Defeat, Interpretation, Resilience, 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
+ The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joyce Carol Oates, Love, Sacrifice, Self-worth, 0 Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. 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