35 ordspråk av Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates föddes den June 16th 1938 - twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, b.
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 Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity. |
| Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality. |
| Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves. |
| She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it |
| Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. |
| The Falls ... a story written with Shakespearean proportions, pitting the power of blood ties against the needs of the individual and the larger community. |
| The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. |
| The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss? |
| The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. |
| The worst cynicism: a belief in luck |
| To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up. |
| We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. |
| We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. |
| We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone - its value is incontestable |
| We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone - its value is incontestable |
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Proverb (1469536 st) Search
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Authors (167535 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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