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Quotes by Canadian Authors

"There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket."

"Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal."

"It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself."


"Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters."

"It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game."

"The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies."

"A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species."

"When they discover I have a green card there may be some problems."

"The pro-growth policies of Congress have helped created new jobs in the region and across the country."

"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."

"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."

"What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis."

"LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others."

"I enjoyed reading all the classic authors like Isaac Asimov and Bradbury."

"I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment."


"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."

"The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris."


"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."

"I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems."


"It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns."


"Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality."


"Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it."

"I have become a housewife and there is no better job."

"The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman."

"I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter."

"Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't."

"If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved."

"Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great."

"Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence."


"Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love."


"Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent."

"Believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn't."

"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."

"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation."

"Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?"

"You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles."
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