Joyce Carol Oates - Love Quotes

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Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

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

Joyce Carol Oates
My love: you make me permanent
like old unlovely clay relics
unearthed in the Egypt
of the ancient dead.

Joyce Carol Oates
It's one of those secrets that's embarrassing to acknowledge, but we do love our students.

Joyce Carol Oates
I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.

Joyce Carol Oates
Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Joyce Carol Oates
When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.

Joyce Carol Oates
How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhaps our greatest happiness spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.

Joyce Carol Oates
I used to think that getting old was about vanity—but actually it's about losing people you love.

Joyce Carol Oates
She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.

Joyce Carol Oates
When you're 50 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.

Joyce Carol Oates
To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.

Joyce Carol Oates