"On the elusive gift of blending austerity of……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure."
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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 want to define success by redefining it. For me it isn't that solely mythical definition - glamour, allure, power…
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I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer…
— Louis Agassiz
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I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling…
— Paul Newman
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I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ...…
— Emma Watson
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I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think…
— Eric Stoltz
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
— Socrates
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Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature:…
— John Calvin
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The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and…
— Deb Caletti
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The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it…
— Rudolf Otto
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For most of us, when our 'dreams' - I use the word with reservations - came true, and marriage and…
— Mariella Frostrup
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When the going gets tough, the prospect of delegating half your responsibilities to a willing volunteer, either to play a…
— Mariella Frostrup
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The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling…
— Lee H. Hamilton
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