"It is only through disruptions and confusion that……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own."
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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 Collision Quotes
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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
— Duffy Daugherty
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles…
— Abraham Lincoln
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General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops…
— Ambrose Bierce
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A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build…
— Andrew Joseph Galambos
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought…
— David Seabury
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It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion…
— James Madison
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The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic…
— Iannis Xenakis
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Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or…
— Jacques Ellul
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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and…
— Lester R. Brown
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For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty…
— Adolf Hitler
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This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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