"From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound."

-- Nicholson Baker

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“Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront... She's not as inclined to conciliate or placate. Cora is fascinated by Mary”
“A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.”
“Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.”

Source : "Authority and Religious Liberty". Address before the Holy Name Society, Washington, D.C., archive.org. September 21, 1924.
“It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.”
“I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something.”
“I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.”
“I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.”
“I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.”

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

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