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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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Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have,…
— Tony Robbins
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I wouldn't be surprised if many marriages end in divorce largely because one or both partners are running from their own revealed…
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The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just…
— Sam Vaknin
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If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there…
— Adrian Lyne
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No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.
— Andrew Sullivan
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It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
— Jess C Scott
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People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.
— Daniel Kahneman
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A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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People are in one of two states in a relationship,” Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override,…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.
— Gary Chapman
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