"Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent."

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Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

Eden Robinson

#Romance Quotes #Serious Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.”

Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.173, Routledge
“The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth”
“The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2010.
“The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops.”
“Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.”
“The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked”
“Alec Baldwin is so funny.”
“Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part. The hard part is what's right in front of you. The hard part is learning how to hold the title to your very existence, to own not only property, but also your life.”

Source : Meghan Daum (2010). “Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House”, p.245, Vintage

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