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"In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn."
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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."
"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
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"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
"If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside."
"The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work."
"I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world."
"We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage."
"Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials."
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