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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History Writing World Violence Why

I feel like we haven't dealt with the ghosts of America's past, and the way to deal with it is to confront it, so every time people see me, I want them to be reminded and to confront that ghost.

Time Past People Me Feel America

States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.

Fear Cannot States Retaliation

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.

Way Out Difficulty Pushing Assurance

While globalization will make the world smaller and more accessible, we must continue to appreciate its vibrant diversity.

Jean-Philippe Courtois

Diversity World Appreciate Will More

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

Stephen Hawking

Family Abortion Kind Risk High Some

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

I Am Realist Idealist Mixture Am

My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.

Daughter Great Wife Parents People

If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.

Song Find First Out Instinct Made

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.

Disappointment Society Self Bold Our

I know I'm in a 'jack of all, master of none' situation, but I like it that way.

Shenaz Treasury

Situation Know Way Master Like None

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.

Good Growth Innovation Freedom Only

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Man Animal Tools Nothing Without He

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