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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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A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
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Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
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All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell.…
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Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but…
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War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class…
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Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe;…
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About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some…
— Charles Darwin
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Law is a bottomless pit.
— John Arbuthnot
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It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house…
— Thomas Brooks
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black,…
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