Famous quotes containing the word oates:
“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)
“Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)