"When you spend so much time trying to father well, and failing, and trying again, and hopefully failing better, it's going to seep into your work. And when you give yourself permission to explore the grottiest bits of your psyche (like Louis CK) (who totally stole that move from me) (not really), to exaggerate the edge of the rustiest blades of your IRL mind, you'll occasionally come up with something that holds real power."

-- Roy Kesey

#Father Quotes #Real Quotes #Moving Quotes

“I don't think anyone's normal.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.
“One person's dream is another's reality.”
“All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.”
“But times do change and move continually.”

Source : Edmund Spenser (1758). “THE FAERIE QUEENE.”, p.456
“Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.”
“I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.”
“Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.”

Source : E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”
“Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason.”

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