"In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction."

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

Eden Robinson

#Writing Quotes #Dysfunction Quotes #Issues Quotes

“Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.”
“We are, every one of us, like a wise guru in charge of a mental patient.”
“This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book, Whereon who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.”

Source : Alfred Noyes (1910). “The Enchanted Island: And Other Poems”
“New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.”
“Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.”
“I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!”
“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.”
“Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.”

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