"Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard."
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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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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
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I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the…
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's…
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We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe…
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Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.
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Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they…
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There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and…
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The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity…
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But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him.…
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He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too…
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Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I…
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