Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Belief
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My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.
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From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.
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America is a very religious nation. Not a mono-religious nation because there are many different strands of belief, but there's something about this nation that inspires people, or perhaps draws people, who are strongly idealistic.
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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
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Why is humanism not the preeminent belief of humankind?
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I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.
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