Famous quotes containing the word oates:
“Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“The worst cynicism: a belief in luck”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicious, bawdy, noisy. How they snore! There is no shame to their snoring. Old women turn into old men.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)