When you're fifty you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity-but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
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Robert A. Heinlein
You always admire what you really don't understand.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
What you can't get is just what suits you.
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French Proverb
The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.
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Toni Cade Bambara
The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
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A. S. Byatt
More Quotes By Joyce Carol Oates
The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
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.
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.
