"If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise."
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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 Approximate Quotes
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one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the…
— Charles Babbage
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That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and…
— Richard P. Feynman
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There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause…
— Densey Clyne
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Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held…
— John Szarkowski
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The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even…
— Carl Jung
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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking…
— Edward Abbey
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Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute…
— Sandra Boynton
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