"Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the blood rushes out happily in the warm water as if kin to it, the same tender substance. Rising a new person transformed with an icy sense of error I go to the sink and turn on cold water which is not friendly to blood. The cut is deeper than imagined."
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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
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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.…
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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…
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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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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
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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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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid…
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
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Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
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"None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in…
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
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I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and…
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A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a…
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