"When my brother called to inform me, on……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover."
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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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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
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My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids.…
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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
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Muslims should live like brothers.
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I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the…
— Stephen Baldwin
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
— Honore de Balzac
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective…
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in…
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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
— Charles Baudelaire
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