"None of the rest of my life figures…" — Joyce Carol Oates
"None of the rest of my life figures here."
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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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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.
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No one can figure out your worth but you.
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
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A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially…
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