Quotes by Oates, Joyce Carol

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. >>

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language. >>

Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Phy >>

Quotations about Ancestry

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding >>

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tar >>

My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to >>

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

Oates, Joyce Carol