What did Joyce Carol Oates mean by: Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA Copy
+ Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Eye, Imagine, Mind, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Like all virtuous people he imagines he must speak the truth. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Speak, Truth, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it’s always there. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Suicidal, Tone, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments. Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Embodiment, Stories, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ I never change, I simply become more myself. Feraz Zeid, August 19, 2023December 29, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Self, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ God’s blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2024January 12, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Blessing, Distinguished, Wrath, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ Can compromise be an art? Yes–but a minor art. Feraz Zeid, July 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Joyce Carol Oates, Art, Compromise, Minors, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
+ A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Joyce Carol Oates, Self, Tennis, 0 - Joyce Carol Oates Author · USA
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
It’s easier to fight one’s enemies than to get on with one’s friends. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
You changed the rules of the universe when you fell in love with the enemy. - Jenny Downham Author · United Kingdom
