Oates, Joyce Carol
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Oates, Joyce Carol
In love there are two things -- bodies and words.
Oates, Joyce Carol
Love
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
Oates, Joyce Carol
Luck
It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
Oates, Joyce Carol
Men and Women
The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn t there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?
Oates, Joyce Carol
Television
Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
Oates, Joyce Carol
Universe
When you re 50 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.
Oates, Joyce Carol
Age and Aging
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
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Ancestry