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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."

"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

"The first stage of any development is infancy."

"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."
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"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."

"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."

"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."

"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"

"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."
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