Russell Edson Quotes

#1. As a child I had wanted to become an automobile, but then I grew up to be thirty years old.

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#2. The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

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#3. It is very difficult to stop feeling.

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#4. Perhaps I should kiss the face of the kitchen clock for luck. Perhaps its little hands with rapture would encircle my neck and we might be happy. I am sure happiness is not too far away

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#5. So Mr Brain opened his mouth to let a moonbeam into his head.

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#6. She fell in love with her doctor's stethoscope, the way it listened to her heart.

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#7. There's only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it's probably best not to know. It allows one to work without expectation. Best to let the poem do the thinking while we concern ourselves with what's called the personal life.

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#8. If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

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