"Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it."
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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site.
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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
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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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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
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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…
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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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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead…
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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay…
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I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor…
— Foxy Brown
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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
— Cher
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in…
— George H. W. Bush
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The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but…
— George Carlin
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the…
— George W. Bush
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Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous…
— Dennis Conner
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If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge…
— Frantz Fanon
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Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever…
— Bill Gates
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My wife made me join a bridge club... I jump off next Tuesday.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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