"The critiques I received from my father's community didn't actually have to do with any of the things I'd been afraid of - spiritual or cultural aspects - they were more annoyed that I'd killed off this character or those characters hadn't hooked up or I'd done an open ending and it didn't give them a sense of closure that they were expecting."

-- Eden Robinson

#Spiritual Quotes #Father Quotes #Character Quotes

“My directing is really weird. Everything is based on whether it's working or not. I don't try to fix something if it's not working, I'll just change it.”

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“If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.”
“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
“My job is baseball. That's it. After, I'll talk to my country. I'm happy to do that.”
“You do not know what you will earn tomorrow.”
“If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?”
“I want to kiss you again, Tess.â€ â€œWhy?â€ He chuckled, low under his breath. â€œWhy? Because youâ€™re beautiful, and because I want you. And I think you want me too.”
“Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.”

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