Joyce Carol Oates
"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"
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"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"
Joyce Carol Oates
"Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life"
Joyce Carol Oates
". . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful."
Joyce Carol Oates
"And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices."
Joyce Carol Oates
"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."
Joyce Carol Oates
"A daydreamer is prepared for most things."
Joyce Carol Oates
"In love there are two things - bodies and words."
Joyce Carol Oates
"The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love."
Joyce Carol Oates
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