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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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Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.
— Miranda Cosgrove
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
— Walter Bagehot
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Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.
— Barry McGuire
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Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to…
— Joe Flanigan
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So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief,…
— Steve Schirripa
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I think whenever we think of our hometowns, we tend to think of very specific people: with whom you rode on the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I'm sick of very white teeth and lots of gymnasium practice. I'm bored, you know, send in the next one. I wanted…
— Tim Roth
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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of…
— Laurence Sterne
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I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
— Mother Teresa
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I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose…
— Tracey Ullman
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I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his…
— Markus Zusak
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