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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown."
"Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that."
"We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays."
"Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all."
"Positive lessons learned... Blessings recognized... Humor found... No regrets."
"I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light."
"The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims."
"I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls."
"People today think of the world as a uniquely dangerous place. It’s hard to follow the news without feeling a mounting dread of terrorist attacks, a clash of civilizations, and the use of weapons of mass destruction. But we often forget the dangers that filled the news a few decades ago and become blasé about the good fortune that so many of them have fizzled out."
"People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of the stories as real, and some as fiction. But she honored them all, though she didn't buy every one."
"There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity."
"The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience."
"I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender."
"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
"The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer."
"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
"The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home."
"Home, I think. But it's nowhere I can go back to."
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
"I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology-that progress comes through class struggle, often violent. It led to the widespread belief that the only way to achieve justice was to hurry this dialectical process along, and allow the oppressed working classes to carry out their struggle against their bourgeois oppressors."
"When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams."
"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."
"When someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart - I want to hug them for being real..."
"What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material."
"In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ."
"Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada."
"To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that."
"I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters."
"Mrs Lynde says, "Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed."
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