"We are the species that clamors to be…" — Joyce Carol Oates
"We are the species that clamors to be lied to."
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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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The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
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More Clamor Quotes
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one of 73 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum,…
— Charles Eliot Norton
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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
— Eric Hoffer
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Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this…
— John Flavel
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To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is…
— Robert C. Murphy
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to…
— Seth Godin
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But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned,…
— James Madison
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Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is…
— Albert Einstein
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I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with finding ourselves: learning…
— Kelly Cutrone
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The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking.…
— James F. Byrnes
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