"labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in me..." People have fun collaging these; there's a fun people have with their identifications. The irony of them can be lost if you're just wholeheartedly anti-identitarian."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

#Fun Quotes #People Quotes #Irony Quotes

“I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.”
“If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.”
“You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.”
“Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at all, and you have to allow the dreaming side free rein.”
“I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced”
“A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.”

Source : Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973
“I never wished to be a politician, and I despise them. I've also wrestled with it over the years, and I deeply dislike propaganda. And all art that is about propaganda, no matter how wonderful it's cause may be, I think is morally wrong. That's a major theme of my work. I don't want to control how people think; I want to show them how they are controlled by pictures.”
“Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.”

Source : "Emotionally Abused Women". Interview with David Roberts, www.healthyplace.com.

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