"Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what……" — Joyce Carol Oates

"Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone."

— Joyce Carol Oates

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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his… — Sarah Bernhardt
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. — Josh Billings
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. — William Blake
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit. — Lucien Bouchard
The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the… — Charles Bronson
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other. — Taylor Caldwell
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. — Taylor Caldwell
You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of… — Caleb Carr
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. — John le Carre
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence. — Nick Cave
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. — Margaret Cho
Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal. — Deepak Chopra

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