Joyce Carol Oates

A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.

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These are some quotes by American author Joyce Carol Oates Novelist, who was born on June 16, 1938.

Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

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.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

Joyce Carol Oates

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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.

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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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Despite all of our efforts to control something, the world is much, much more powerful than us, and more deranged even than us.

Errol Morris

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