"The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

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“I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.”
“I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.”
“The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.”
“Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.”
“Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.”

Source : Marcus Sedgwick (2010). “Blood Red, Snow White: n/a”, p.34, Hachette UK
“You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.”
“No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works.”
“If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.”

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