Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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The stress and turmoil that my father had to go through at a young age to make sure that I didn't have the same trials and tribulations, I couldn't be more grateful.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies? The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.
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I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
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Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye.
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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
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But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from, just hard work and basically being at it.
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The great multitudes continue to develop; the new ideas continue to attain their proper force within society; the material possibilities for the full development of all members of society make the task much more fruitful. The present is a time for struggle; the future is ours.
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The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign themselves to the difficulties or the doltishness of fate; they hope: hope is a slave’s virtue.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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If men with fleshly mortals must be fed, and chew with bleeding teeth the breathing bread; what else is this but to devour our guests, and barbarously renew Cyclopean feasts? While Earth not only can your needs supply, but, lavish of her store, provides for luxury; a guiltless feast administers with ease, and without blood is prodigal to please.
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Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.
