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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1938

Topics

Art Tragedy Consider Highest Form

I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.

Live Great Myself Challenge Person

It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually.

Eyes Spiritual Must Senses Expected

I personally dealt with a lot of depression and anxiety in my life.

Life Depression My Life Anxiety Lot

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

Luc de Clapiers

Men People Feel Enough Sometimes

I'd done plays in middle school, done some for the church in high school, but I had no intention of ever being a professional actor.

School High School Church Intention

For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.

Life People Me Democracy Better

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Arthur E. Morgan

Man Feel Tragedy Important May Lack

I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.

Love Fashion Look See Check Going

Girls slightly younger tended to be Donny Osmond girls or Michael Jackson girls, but for my generation, it tended to be David Cassidy.

Allison Pearson

Generation Younger Michael Jackson

The border patrol gave us a list of the diseases that they're concerned about, and Ebola was one of those.

Border Us Border Patrol Concerned

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

Sydney J. Harris

Ignorance Dangerous Nearly Per

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

New York City Born New I Was Born

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