Joyce Carol Oates cytaty (106 cytatów, strona 3)

Joyce Carol Oates: 106 cytatów1 Polubienie

Joyce Carol Oates słynne cytaty

„Cyberprzestrzeń, w której spędził tyle godzin swojego krótkiego życia, istnieje wszędzie, a zarazem nigdzie. I to nigdzie musi zatriumfować. To prawo przyrody.”

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„Boska miłość zawsze wychodziła i zawsze wychodzić będzie naprzeciw każdej ludzkiej potrzebie.”

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Blondynka (2000)

„W każdej chwili mogę się natknąć na jakieś przesłanie. Zrozumiem jego znaczenie albo i nie. To zawsze było credo Normy Jeane jako czytelniczki.”

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Blondynka (2000)

„Alkoholicy mają to do siebie, że żyją i żyją. Cieszą się odpornością karaluchów.”

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Po to żyłem (1994)

„Przymus bycia szczęśliwym tylko komplikuje życie.”

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Córka grabarza (2007)

„Miłość jest pułapką, wciąga cię do jaskini. A jak już jesteś w tej jaskini, to nie masz drogi ucieczki.”

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Córka grabarza (2007)

Joyce Carol Oates Cytaty o książkach

„W Ameryce ideałem jest hasło „płać jednakowo za taką samą pracę” niezależnie od płci, rasy i wieku. Niestety, ten ideał nie zawsze ma rację bytu. Kobiety wciąż zarabiają mniej niż mężczyźni – to znaczy siedemdziesiąt centów w porównaniu do jednego dolara. Na tym samym stanowisku i z podobnymi kwalifikacjami! Jednocześnie, w przeciwieństwie do radykalnych feministek, wcale nie zgadzam się z tezami o wyższości kobiet.”

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Źródło: Michał Hernes, Jedna z najważniejszych pisarek XX wieku. Autorka książki „Blondynka” o Marylin Monroe w rozmowie dla SHEMAG, shemag.pl, 28 maja 2014 http://www.shemag.pl/ona-on/jedna-z-najwazniejszych-pisarek-xx-wieku-autorka-ksiazki-blondynka-o-marylin-monroe-w-rozmowie-dla-shemag/

„Prawdopodobnie najtrudniej „stworzyć” rozsądną, dobroduszną, uprzejmą i delikatną osobę, jednocześnie nie czyniąc go albo jej nudną.”

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„Nie jestem katoliczką i generalnie mam problem z łatwowiernością wierzących, którzy często sprawiają wrażenie, że modlą się o to, by ich okłamywano.”

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Joyce Carol Oates cytaty

„Kobieta jest nadzieją, uśmiech kobiety jest nadzieją. Nie da się żyć bez nadziei, tak jak nie da się żyć bez tlenu.”

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Córka grabarza (2007)

„Miłość! Królowa wszystkich słabości.”

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Córka grabarza (2007)

„Strach ma swój zapach. Drapieżnik go wyczuje.”

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Córka grabarza (2007)

„Najgorszy rodzaj cynizmu: wiara w szczęście.”

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„Nie istnieje zło, nie istnieje grzech ani śmierć. Nie istnieje brzydota, z wyjątkiem chwil, gdy nas oczy zawodzą.”

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Blondynka (2000)

„(…) wszystko dzieje się zawsze po raz pierwszy. Wszystko, co się liczy.”

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Córka grabarza (2007)

„To okropne być trzeźwym, rzeczywistość przypomina prześwietloną fotografię.”

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Po to żyłem (1994)

„Bo w życiu nie ma żadnej muzyki, nie ma żadnych akcentów. Większość spraw dzieje się w ciszy. Żyjesz dalej i odtwarzasz wszystko w pamięci. Niczego nie przeżywasz po raz drugi, tylko po prostu zapamiętujesz, i to niedokładnie. Poza tym życie nie jest takie proste jak fabuła filmu, jest za wiele do zapamiętania.”

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Córka grabarza (2007)

Joyce Carol Oates: Cytaty po angielsku

“[The] third man in the ring makes boxing possible.”

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On the introduction of referees in the late 19th century
On Boxing (1987)

“The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.”

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Do What You Will (1970), pt. 2, ch. 15

“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing — for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible not to see that your opponent is you… Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”

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On Boxing (1987)

“Any number of definitions help to determine who we are. It doesn't hurt to be a woman writer, an American woman writer, American woman writer of the 21st century. I think all these descriptions of us — and they're descriptions and adjectives that pertain to you — none of them diminish you, really. I think that maybe there's a kind of deepening or expansion the more identifications you have.”

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Tavis Smiley interview (2005)

“Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.”

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On Boxing (1987)

“Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.”

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On Boxing (1987)

“To be knocked out doesn’t mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.”

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On Boxing (1987)

“Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.”

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"The Calendar's New Clothes," New York Times (30 December 1999)

“The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.”

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Tavis Smiley interview (2005)

“When poets — write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.”

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"Writers’ Hunger: Food as Metaphor," New York Times (19 August 1986)

“Nothing is accidental in the universe — this is one of my Laws of Physics — except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity. So it cannot be an accident that I think of you so constantly.”

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"The Summing Up: Meredith Dawe," Do What You Will (1970)

“Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.”

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As quoted in "Master Race," Partisan Review 50th Anniversary Edition (1985), edited by William Phillips

“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”

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"Writers’ Hunger: Food as Metaphor," New York Times (19 August 1986)

“The writer is a “somewhat mystical” — or do I mean “mythical?””

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Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself (2013)

“The spectacle of human beings fighting each other for whatever reason, including, at certain well-publicized times, staggering sums of money, is enormously disturbing because it violates a taboo of our civilization. Many men and women, however they steel themselves, cannot watch a boxing match because they cannot allow themselves to see what it is they are seeing. One thinks helplessly, This can’t be happening, even as, and usually quite routinely, it is happening. In this way boxing as a public spectacle is akin to pornography: in each case the spectator is made a voyeur, distanced, yet presumably intimately involved, in an event that is not supposed to happening as it is happening. The pornographic "drama," though as fraudulent as professional wrestling, makes a claim for being about something absolutely serious, if not humanly profound: it is not so much about itself as about the violation of a taboo. That the taboo is spiritual rather than physical, or sexual — that our most valuable human experience, love, is being is being desecrated, parodied, mocked — is surely at the core of our culture’s fascination with pornography.”

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On Boxing (1987)

“There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.”

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Address at Mount Holyoke College (2006)

“Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.”

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"What Is the Connection Between Men and Women?" Mademoiselle (February 1970)

“At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.”

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Address at Mount Holyoke College (2006)

“Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don’t give up, don’t be discouraged, don’t pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this.”

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Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself (2013)

“Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.”

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On Boxing (1987)

“Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.”

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Address at Mount Holyoke College (2006)

“In any case, raw aggression is thought to be the peculiar province of men, as nurturing is the peculiar province of women… The psychologist Erik Erikson discovered that, while little girls playing with blocks generally create pleasant interior spaces and attractive entrances, little boys are inclined to pile up the blocks as high as they can and then watch them fall down: "the contemplation of ruins," Erikson observes, "is a masculine specialty."”

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On Boxing (1987)

“When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.”

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New York Times (27 July 1980)

“It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.”

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"In the Founders’ Room," Unholy Loves (1979)

“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it! — that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms — nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”

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Joyce Carol Oates książka You Must Remember This

You Must Remember This (1987), pt. 1, ch. 13

“When you’re 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity — but actually it’s about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.”

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Interview in The Guardian (18 August 1989)

“It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.”

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Address at Mount Holyoke College (2006)

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Joyce Carol Oates książka You Must Remember This

that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms — nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?
You Must Remember This (1987), pt. 1, ch. 13

“Constant interruptions are the destruction of imagination.”

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