It's where we go and what we do when we get there that tells us who we are.

Joyce Carol Oates
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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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