"Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude."
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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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The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only…
— Paulo Freire
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one…
— Andre Gide
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In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words…
— Don Henley
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Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary,…
— Thomas Merton
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...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,…
— Julian Huxley
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On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and…
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion,…
— Chris Hedges
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The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with…
— Peter L. Berger
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I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should…
— Max Born
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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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