"I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them."

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Source : Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.74, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Joyce Carol Oates

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“I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a cafÃ©, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.”
“Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.”
“Who knows why men do anything?”
“Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.”
“Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions...that get us to the right answer.”
“Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.”
“So now she and I are friends - not with benefits, but memories.”

Source : Sara Ryan (2009). “Rules for Hearts”, p.125, Penguin
“I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.”

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