The Accursed Quotes

“There is no religion higher than truth.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“It is no more malicious, and surely no more unnatural than the act of introducing the male black widow spider to the female of the species. For, what is one doing but hasten the procedure of Nature, and thereby abridging the narrative?”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“Gossip - invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate the truth.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“evil' is after all a relative term: there being a minor and pragmatical sort, to be disposed of as one swats a fly, and a vast, all-encompassing, one might say universal sort, that must be halted by any means at hand.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“Darwin- I think the theory is: out of 'chaos' arises something that resembles 'design'. But it's all random.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“Faith' and 'science' inhabit totally different spheres, and do not overlap, even to share the same vocabulary.”
― Joyce Carol Oates