The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.
It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are. - Joyce Carol Oates
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
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read. - Joyce Carol Oates
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
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
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
In love there are two things - bodies and words. - Joyce Carol Oates
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
There is nothing "ordinary" about reality. - Joyce Carol Oates
There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.
I never change, I simply become more myself. - Joyce Carol Oates
I never change, I simply become more myself.
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
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…
How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look. - Joyce Carol Oates
How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
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