"In a family, what isn't spoken is what……" — Joyce Carol Oates

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But… - Joyce Carol Oates

"In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out."

— Joyce Carol Oates

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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves…
The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last…
I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up.…
The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter…
Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut…
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might…
Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death…
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

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More Drown Quotes

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You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float. — John Barrymore
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. — Edmund Burke
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. — Jimmy Carter
You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. — Paulo Coelho
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or… — George Arnold
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence. — Rabindranath Tagore
It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in… — Diana Gabaldon
I don't recommend washing your face. Because you might drown. — Jenna Marbles
Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear… — Rajneesh
You don't drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there. — Zig Ziglar
It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness. — Edith Wharton

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