"Not what the mind sees, but what the……" — Joyce Carol Oates

"Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see."

— Joyce Carol Oates

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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates has 312 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to… — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,… — Rowan Atkinson
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like… — David Attenborough
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other… — Wystan Hugh Auden
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the… — Saint Augustine
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He… — Teresa of Avila

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