"I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing cardâ€¦and somehow the activity of writing changes everything."

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Source : Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Joyce Carol Oates

#Writing Quotes #Soul Quotes #Cards Quotes

“Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.”
“The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.”
“Hope is a gift we give ourselves, and it remains when all else is gone.”
“Iâ€™ve traveled all over the world, but I donâ€™t think there is any place better than Texas,”
“Sleep is over rated, then again so is being awake.”
“We've got to stay on our [animation] game, make sure we still remember how to animate.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When George Bush finally leaves the White House, the satire industry will briefly join the rest of the economy in recession. It will certainly be the end of an era.”

Source : "Bush: the end of a satirist's dream" by Rory Bremner, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2009.
“People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.”

Source : L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan

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