Joyce Carol Oates

STATUS QUOtes — 20240920

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.” — Gustav Klimt, Austrian symbolist painter

“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.” — Charles Kettering

“It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.” — Joyce Carol Oates

“I’m now at the age where I’ve got to prove that I’m just as good as I never was.” — Rex Harrison

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20210310

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.” — Thomas Hobbes

“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates

“The truth is, we’ve not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult, the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.” — Saul Bellow

“You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.” — Jonathan Haidt

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170620

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.” — Susan Sontag

“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.” — Winston Churchill

“I never change, I simply become more myself.” — Joyce Carol Oates

“As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit and parking as close to the stadium as possible.” — Joe Moore

 

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