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Last Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
- The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing…
- It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.
- I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning…
- When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain…
- Death is just the last scene of the last act.
More Last Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Do every act of your life as if it were your last. — Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. — Marcus Aurelius
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every… — John Avlon