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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
"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."
"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
Explore more quotes by Mordecai Richler
"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."
"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."
"The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work."
"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."
"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."
"Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials."
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