A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.

Joyce Carol Oates
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  1. Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. - E.e. Cummings

  2. Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. - William Shakespeare

  3. That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind - Neil Armstrong

  4. In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars. - Amit Kalantri

  5. When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been... - Bertrand Russell

More Quotes By Joyce Carol Oates
  1. The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

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

  3. A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

  4. If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

  5. And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

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