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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts."
"The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate."
"Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio."
"I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me."
"There is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go..."
"Don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ..."
"Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies."
"The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing."
"The benefits of forgiveness are limitless."
"Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry."
"Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science."
"Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession."
"You believed you could transcend the body as you aged, she tells herself. You believed you could rise above it, to a serene, nonphysical realm. But it's only through ecstasy you can do that, and ecstasy is achieved through the body itself. Without the bone and sinew of wings, no flight. Without that ecstasy you can only be dragged further down by the body, into its machinery. Its rusting, creaking, vengeful, brute machinery."
"You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor."
"He started to touch the mechanism under the keyboard, then pulled his hand back with a snap."Ah," he said. "Must deactivate the security....Turn around, please.""What?""Turn around, Claire. It's a secure password!""You have GOT to be kidding.""Why ever would I joke about that? Please turn."
"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."
"The expression of preferences is the essence of love."
"Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it."
"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."
"No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some people will inherit wealth they did not earn."
"Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL."
"Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."
"Legal investigation. As Clinton noted, "My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful."
"Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions."
"Our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives..."
"Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point."
"Come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words..."
"I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final."
"We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business."
"A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spent so much time developing and creating my characters, they've ended up with complex personalities, in fact they're almost sentient in a way, and to write them off as dead would be like killing a close friend to me."
"So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us."
"I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it."
"I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again."
"I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am."
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