"Her wish to die was as pervasive as……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there."
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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 Dial Quotes
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one of 80 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means…
— Mary J. Blige
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
— Tony Campolo
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Sleep is the best time to repair, but it's hard to get a good night's rest when we don't dial…
— Kris Carr
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I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.
— Lee Trevino
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The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate,…
— Justus von Liebig
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I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number…
— Hendrik Tennekes
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In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights…
— Charles Dickens
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My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a…
— Billy Gibbons
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TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like…
— John C. McGinley
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At my hotel room, my friend came over and asked to use the phone. I said Certainly. He said Do…
— Mitch Hedberg
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place…
— Plautus
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