Expensive People Quotes

“Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People

“Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People

“Messes are made by people who want but don't know what they want, let alone how to get it.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People

“But thinking it my duty to stretch the flayed skin of my childhood on some sort of skeleton of convention”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People

“When there is no longer any point in lying, no one will lie”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People

“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you are!”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People

“He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People

“you noted the coats, the clothes, the yellow cars, the house, furniture, parties, country club,”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People

“It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what have children to do with such things?”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People