"I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end."
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some…
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
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We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building…
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A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step…
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant…
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or…
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