"Of our hurts we make monuments of survival.…" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive."
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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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People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and…
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of…
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I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try…
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I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also…
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
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When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over…
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My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.
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