"Keep a light, hopeful heart. But Âexpect the worst."

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Source : Ten rules for writing fiction (part two) by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

Joyce Carol Oates

#Heart Quotes #Light Quotes #Hopeful Quotes

“Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.”
“The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies.”

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“Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.”
“You can only have fun helping other people have fun if you're having fun doing it.”
“The GDR people found love at the workplace, and the West is always telling stories about finding love when work is over and you have your free time and your leisure time. That's when you fall in love. But in the Communist state, you fall in love in the workplace, because that's mainly where you are.”
“I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.”
“Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.”
“You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.”

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