"Like most people, I can be very easily…" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Like most people, I can be very easily hurt."
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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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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for,…
— Thomas Arnold
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Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
— Sholem Asch
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I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.
— Sean Astin
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I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to…
— Margaret Atwood
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you…
— Francis Bacon
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
— Eric Bana
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the…
— George Bancroft
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When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like…
— Tyra Banks
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Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.
— Max Baucus
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