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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
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"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."
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"Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62."
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"We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning."
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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
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"Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that."
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"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard."
Humor
"Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are."
Positivity
"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."
Memory
"In my dreams of this city I am always lost."
Emotion
"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
Beginning
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."
Leadership
"Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time."
Time
"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."
Nature
"I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define."
Emotion
"Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?"
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