"Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence,……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind."
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought…
— Frank Abagnale
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A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they…
— Dave Attell
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Be content to seem what you really are.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
— Kevin Bacon
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being…
— Drew Barrymore
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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