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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond."
"I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger."
"The past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you can see it as dA©cor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into."
"He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas."
"We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'."
"A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based on those arguments."
"Are you all right?" The question surprised Jess, and it broke through his black shell enough to make him throw a look at his friend. "No." I didn't think you were. Everyone wants you to be. That must be worse, that they think you should be fine."
"We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us-who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed."
"Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!"
"People cannot live forever, but memories can. Never pass up an opportunity to create awesome memories with your special ones."
"Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent."
"Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage."
"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"Why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age...."
"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure."
"I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds."
"Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed."
"Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control."
"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself."
"Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?"
"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
"Childhood trauma does not come in one single package."
"They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities."
"Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable."
"She needs you for more than just protection. It's how it works. You want the strong girl, you understand that she's with you because she wants to be. Not because she has to be. You know that, right?"
"Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ."
"True saints know that the place where all the joy comes from is far deeper than that of feelings, joy comes from the place of the very presence of God. Joy is God and God is joy and joy doesn't negate all other emotions - joy transcends all other emotions."
"I don't like psychiatrists, Alecto told her. "Not because they don't think I'm real, but because they have no idea what they're doing."
"We don't lose our loved ones when they die. We gain guardian angels. - Tanya Masse aka Comic Strip Mama."
"My sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars - I go there often to sleep ..."
"If you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority..."
"We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naA ve to work toward a better one."
"Friends are like the stars that glow in the sky... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there overhead, and even when it's cloudy, snowy or stormy, even when the power goes out and you're trapped in darkness, they'll always find a way to shine through to you."
"Eventually he'd let the answering machine take over and had hidden in his studio. Where he's hidden all his life. From the monster. He could feel itin their bedroom now. He could feel its tail swishing by him. Feel its hot, fetid breath.All his life he knew if he was quiet enough, small enough, it wouldnn't see him. If he didn't make a fuss, didn't speak up, it wouldn't hear him, wouldn't hurt him. If he was beyond criticism and hid his cruelty with a smile and good deeds, it wouldn't devour him. By now he realized there was no hiding. It would always be there, and always find him. He was the monster."
"I believe that a contract, or at least an understanding, exists between the American public and the American advertiser concerning what advertising is, what its limitations are and what price people will pay for it."
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