"I write so much because my cat sits……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband."
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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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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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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
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More Calming Quotes
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
— Walter Bagehot
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Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are…
— Gerry Adams
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Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God,…
— Unknown Author
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My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations.…
— Bobby Sands
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Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic…
— Andrew Weil
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Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like…
— Haroon Siddiqui
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L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a…
— Nicolas Berggruen
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We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make…
— Larry Crabb
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One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it;…
— Diana Vreeland
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up…
— Ian Hart
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The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something…
— Kate Klise
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