"When poets write about food it is usually……" — Joyce Carol Oates
"When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane."
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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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More Celebratory Quotes
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Thank you for your kind invitation. However, as a gay man, I must decline. I am deeply troubled by the…
— Wentworth Miller
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I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say,…
— Christina Hendricks
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I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being…
— Wentworth Miller
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All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent.…
— Unknown Author
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The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration…
— Thomas Berry
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If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels,…
— Paul Fussell
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Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.
— RuPaul
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Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she…
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense…
— Archie Shepp
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I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my…
— Peter Greenaway
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I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from…
— Linton Kwesi Johnson
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White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm…
— Joni Mitchell
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