Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.

Joyce Carol Oates's Popular Quotes

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.

- Joyce Carol Oates

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.

- 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

I never change, I simply become more myself.

- Joyce Carol Oates

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

- Joyce Carol Oates

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

- Joyce Carol Oates

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

- 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 o…

- Joyce Carol Oates

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

- Joyce Carol Oates