"The denial of language is a suicidal one……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives."
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312 Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
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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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More Denial Quotes
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
— Javier Bardem
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who…
— Martha Beck
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience…
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
— David Bowie
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization…
— Barbara Boxer
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People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
— Julie Burchill
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