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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
"There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences."
Explore more quotes by Mordecai Richler
"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."
"The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials."
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