"Every scar in my face is worth it." — Joyce Carol Oates
"Every scar in my face is worth 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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More Every Scar Quotes
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From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."
— Craig Scott
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Every scar has a life of its own and a space in my heart.
— Paulo Coelho
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I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned
— Carrie Underwood
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You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.
— Salman Khurshid
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I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is…
— Pat Benatar
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A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real…
— Stephen King
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,'Aubrey. I will avenge this scar and every scar you…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.
— Wallace Stegner
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By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you…
— Thomas Wolfe
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Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the…
— Stephen King
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Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetimes worth of lessons.
— Superman
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Tough times serve a purpose. From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story a story…
— Mula
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