Pietanzas Carol Quotes

The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret one's impulsiveness, one's misjudgment of others? The inevitable discovery that someone is selling letters you'd written in trust is simply to discover an obvious human truth: there are those who don't cherish us as we'd cherished them, and had wished to be cherished by them. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Learn all you can about people in other parts of the world. Understanding how people in other countries live and work and play teaches us to respect them and promote peace everywhere. ~ Carol Bellamy

When do we put on the lingerie? Always at the beginning of the relationship - first couple of months, strutting around the bedroom wearing a teddy. Yeah, six months later, you've stopped shaving your legs and you look like a teddy. ~ Carol Leifer

The bed was warm and ordinary and perfect, and it had been such a long, long day. Probably the longest day of my life. I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, ~ Carol Rifka Brunt

Gay male and lesbian culture is obsessed with purity of identity as the only basis for figuring out who you can trust or dance with. -Pat Califia ~ Carol Queen

There was something so lonely about that moment, everyone around me completely involved in this thing I wasn't a part of, me with nowhere to go. ~ Carol Rifka Brunt

For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence. ~ Carol Klein

Dickensian poverty tends to occur after Christmas in January. For it is then, with pockets empty, diary decimated and larder bare, that the general populace sinks into a collective pauper's hibernation until Valentine's Day. ~ Stewart Stafford

Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning. ~ Carol Ann Tomlinson

We never have time, do we, for all that we don't exactly want to do. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

And this is part of the fixed mindset. Effort is for those who don't have the ability. ~ Carol S. Dweck

Only some things are worth doing well. Most things that are worth doing are only worth doing sloppily. Many things aren't worth doing at all. Anything not worth doing at all is certainly not worth doing well. ~ Carol Deppe

I create recipes that are not just "good for gluten-free" but just plain GOOD, period! ~ Carol Kicinski

THANK YOU but please do not write again. And do not call. I have had enough of you. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

... in some sense, she ignored her physical self, as if her body were merely something impersonal vehicle for moving around in. She seemed not to notice or care much what she wore or what she looked like. ~ Carol Lee

God is in the truth. ~ Carol Tavris

You have to work hardest for the things you love most. ~ Carol S. Dweck

Darkness allows the moon to shine bright. Know that you can shine in darker days too. ~ Carol 'CC' Miller

The regional voice is the universal voice. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Keep on. The work of the world is always done by creatures too tired to do it. ~ Carol Emshwiller

I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite. ~ Carol Burnett

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

The temptation to take the next step hung in the air around them ... it was the apple: take one bite, and there was no going back. ~ Carol Oates

The murderer is not protected! He is vulnerable. TO ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Oh, this is fun - went to a nude beach for the first time. Yeah, that's what I thought. You ever been to a nude beach? Thought it would be all sexy and hot. Oh my God, what a flubber fest! Everybody who shouldn't be naked is naked - didn't make me want to take off my clothes, made me want to take out my contacts. ~ Carol Leifer

I don't like to overhear things, because, in my experience, things your parents are keeping quiet about are things you don't want to know. ~ Carol Rifka Brunt

Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed, the ambiguity of meaning, its inner private quality, may well be part of the writer's vision. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

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If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.) ~ Joyce Carol Oates