"I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed."

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

Eden Robinson

#Two Quotes #Smoking Quotes #Missing Quotes

“The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.”
“But I'd far rather live without souls or morals than Parmesan.”

Source : Kate Quinn (2013). “The Serpent and the Pearl”, p.201, Penguin
“The best part about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest part about being a teacher is that it matters every day.”
“Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.”
“Voting is no substitute for the eternal vigilance that every friend of freedom must demonstrate towards government. If our freedom is to survive, Americans must become far better informed of the dangers from Washington -- regardless of who wins the Presidency.”
“Sexy is kind of like an aura around someone.”
“What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.”
“The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.”

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