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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it."
"But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion."
"One can always debate questions back and forth."
"To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic."
"The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me."
"Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?".""Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google."
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
"In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness."
"A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."
"Much can be gained be contrasting a theory with its alternatives, even ones that look too extreme to be true. You can really understand something when you know what it is not."
"I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler."
"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"
"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."
"I've made a life and career as a professional musician."
"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent."
"I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary."
"The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity."
"If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain."
"My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe."
"Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again."
"Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities."
"They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable."
"Well... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size."
"You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there."
"When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near."
"I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs."
"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
"Ageing is not easy, Sennhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology. It starts well. It's a most desirable disease. One wouldn't want to do without it. It's like yeast that corrupts the juice of grapes. One loves, one loves, one persists in loving-the incubation period can be very long- and then, with death, comes the heart break. Love must always meet its unwanted end."
"I hardly dare believe it after that horrible day last summer. I have had a heart ache ever since then. But it is gone now."This baby will take Joy's place. Said Marilla."Oh, no no no Marilla. He can't, nothing can ever do that. He has his own place, my dear wee man child. But little Joy has hers, and always will have it."
"But, someone, please give me-who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew-give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?"
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