"Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth."

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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 #People Quotes #Perceive Quotes

“In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.”
“If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.”
“I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.”
“There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it?”
“You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.”
“The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific”

Source : "On Growing Up Tough (The Purple Lodge & The Hippies)". Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1971.
“As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another.”

Source : Jonathan Lethem (2005). “Men and Cartoons”, p.58, Vintage
“For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.”

Source : "Interview: the Cast of Crank". Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. August 29, 2006.

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