"I compose most of my tweets with care,……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression."
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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…
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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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No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or,…
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Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
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Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the…
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On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text…
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Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms…
— Noah Lukeman
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere…
— F. H. Bradley
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An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.
— James Geary
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If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his…
— Milan Kundera
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
— Mason Cooley
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We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
— Paul Eldridge
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