"Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the…" — Joyce Carol Oates

"Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst."

— Joyce Carol Oates

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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

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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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of… — Benigno Aquino III
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against… — Julian Assange
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe… — Chinua Achebe
In order to win, you must expect to win. — Richard Bach
When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to… — Michele Bachmann
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people. — Abu Bakr
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. — Daniel Barenboim
I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect. — Drew Barrymore
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at… — Gregory Bateson

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