Talk:Joyce Carol Oates

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The following were on the article page and need sources. Tyrenius 22:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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

• I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hard-working.

• I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

• In love there are two things - bodies and words.

• Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

• Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

• Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

• Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

• The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

• We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

• What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

• Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

I sourced the "Homo Sapiens is..." one

Wikiquote newb that I am, I don't know the proper etiquette for checking an item off the Discussion page. I restored the quote to the article with the citation; here's the link: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/30/opinion/the-calendar-s-new-clothes.html Pzriddle (talk) 22:58, 20 October 2014 (UTC)