The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: war
The distinction between "assistant" and intern" is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not.
But of course interns are paid, in experience.
Tags: money work internship
This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: life nostalgia communication technology telephone
Warum man schreibt, ist eine Frage die sich der Schriftsteller, völlig versunken in seine Arbeit, nicht stellt. Theorien sind das Gebiet derer, die nicht handeln.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: writing
You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you are!
Joyce Carol OatesThe challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: life inspiration philosophy
It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: inspiration writing-life author-quotes
A man may accommodate himself to a disagreeable situation in a few months. The intolerable may take a little longer.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: lifestyle-change
For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary?
Joyce Carol OatesTags: artistic-endeavour
The Bog Kingdom. Bidding him enter! Ah, enter! There, all wishes are fulfilled. The more forbidden, the more delicious.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: repression
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