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“Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.”

Joyce Carol Oates

Source: The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

“Every scar in my face is worth it.”

Joyce Carol Oates

“I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.”

Joyce Carol Oates

Source: I Am No One You Know: Stories

“If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.”

Joyce Carol Oates book First Love: A Gothic Tale

Source: First Love: A Gothic Tale

“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.”

Joyce Carol Oates

“Death is just the last scene of the last act.”

Joyce Carol Oates Blonde

Source: Blonde

“My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you.”

Joyce Carol Oates

Source: I Lock My Door Upon Myself

“Which is why we saymeaning”

Joyce Carol Oates

Source: Faithless

“It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.”

Joyce Carol Oates book You Must Remember This

Source: You Must Remember This

“How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.”

Joyce Carol Oates Little Bird of Heaven (1st edition)

Source: Little Bird of Heaven

“I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.”

Joyce Carol Oates book Zombie

Source: Zombie

“Exotic: meaning you're "desired."
For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness.
So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.”

Joyce Carol Oates Blonde

Source: Blonde

“I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.”

Joyce Carol Oates

Source: Faithless

“Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.”

Joyce Carol Oates

Source: Faithless

“The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct”

Joyce Carol Oates book Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

Source: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang