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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful."
"I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it."
"But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo."
"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."
"Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships."
"Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous."
"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."
"It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go."
"Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people."
"As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation."
"Claire was struggling through last summer's diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon's head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher."
"I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person."
"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
"Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser, of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse."
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
"I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed."
"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
"If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret."
"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."
"Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it."
"I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse."
"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
"For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do."
"My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian."
"A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called."
"To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself-his extra sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalked slug's eye which extrudes, expands, winces and shrivels back into himself when touched wrongly, grows big again. Bulging a little at the tip, traveling forward as if along a leaf into them, avid for vision. To achieve vision in this way; this journey into a darkness that is composed of women-a woman-who can see in darkness while he himself strains blindly forward."
"The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents."
"You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely."
"But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been."
"Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made."
"I wore that same shirt yesterday playing golf. There goes the Nike account."
"I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian."
"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."
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