"Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to……" — Joyce Carol Oates

"Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing."

312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

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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 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…
We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

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And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing… — John Boehner
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The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts… — Emanuel Celler
There are many miles to go before we get this done ... But I have a feeling that ... we're… — Michael Bennet
Immigration and border security remain critical issues that I am committed to addressing this year. The good news is that… — John McCain
Addressing a golf ball would seem to be a simple matter; that is, to the uninitiated who cannot appreciate that… — Bobby Jones
I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or… — Thomas Jefferson
We are (most of us) embedded in an exceedingly complex network of social relationships, many of which are vital to… — Peter Corning
As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say… — Al Gore

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