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Joyce Carol Oates has 315 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.
— Dan Barker
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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People never sing...except in the bathroom. Birthing women also make their natural sounds next to running bath water. There is something about…
— Michel Odent
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When I dance with him, one of my great loves, he is absolutely human, and when he turns to dip me or…
— Matthew Dickman
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When I was younger, my mum used to put fresh flowers in bath water instead of rubber ducks, and since then I…
— Virginia Hey
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The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out…
— Ken Wilber
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I mean you kinda like that girl that's in the US Open. I mean I got this hidden agenda that you provoking,…
— J. Cole
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I got bath water that you can soak in, things I can do with lotion.
— Drake
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You take your time girl, we gonna move carefully. A hot bath water, the meals you prepare for me.
— Jadakiss
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For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us,…
— Joyce Maynard
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I don't know why some people prefer their bath water close to boiling point. They are more sweaty when they get out…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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