"The worst cynicism: a belief in luck."

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Joyce Carol Oates

#Work Quotes #Luck Quotes #Belief Quotes

“Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.”
“It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.”
“An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed.”
“War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.”
“Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.”
“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.”
“So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain....”
“It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.”

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