Joyce Carol Oates
"Boxing has become America's tragic theater."
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"Boxing has become America's tragic theater."
"أصبح الملاكمة مسرح أمريكا المأساوي."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost."
"الملاكمة احتفال بدين الذكورة المفقود، وما يزيده حدةً ووقعاً كونه ضاع."
Joyce Carol Oates
"I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life."
"أنا منجذب إلى الفشل. أشعر وكأنني أصارعه باستمرار في حياتي."
Joyce Carol Oates
"I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart."
"لعلّ من أهم ما يحتاجه الأرمل أو الأرملة هو حسّ الفكاهة، فكل شيء سيتداعى."
Joyce Carol Oates
"My theory is that literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can't live without dreaming - as we can't live without sleep. We are 'conscious' beings for only a limited period of time, then we sink back into sleep - the 'unconscious.' It is nourishing, in ways we can't fully understand."
"نظريتي أن الأدب ضروري للمجتمع، تماماً كما الأحلام ضرورية لحياتنا. لا يمكننا العيش دون أن نحلم – كما لا يمكننا العيش دون نوم. نحن كائنات "واعية" لفترة محدودة فقط، ثم نغوص مجدداً في النوم – في "اللاوعي". إنه يغذينا بطرق لا يمكننا إدراكها تماماً."
Joyce Carol Oates
"We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves unable to see that here now this very moment is sacred but once it's gone-its value is incontestable."
Joyce Carol Oates
"When you're fifty you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial."
Joyce Carol Oates
"The worst cynicism a belief in luck."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity."
Joyce Carol Oates
"It's where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us who we are."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” —"
Joyce Carol Oates
"Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms."
Joyce Carol Oates
"You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Boxing has become America's tragic theater."
Joyce Carol Oates
"A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on teh ground, a premature snow fall delicate as lace, rapidly melting."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Be daring, take on anything. Don’t labor over little cameo works in which every word is to be perfect. Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose."
Joyce Carol Oates
"I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called “culture” – and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species. ~ Through the local or regional, through our individual voices, we work to create art that will speak to others who know nothing of us. In our very obliqueness to one another, an unexpected intimacy is born."
Joyce Carol Oates
"I feel very transparent in myself. I’m more of an observer. I’m interested in what’s going on. I’m not sure that I really have a personality. Some people think I do have a personality. I have a personality when I am with certain people — but when I’m not with them I don’t have that personality. I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water."
Joyce Carol Oates
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