"I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life."
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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
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On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted…
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe…
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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for…
— Honore de Balzac
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From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the…
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It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love…
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All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web…
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
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Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an…
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do…
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