"Paradox: how do we know what we have……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it."
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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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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
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What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do…
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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot…
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
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If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are…
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be…
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It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The…
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There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ...…
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