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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually."
"We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that."
"Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters."
"You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being."
"What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality."
"The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not."
"I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit."
"Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated cows floating by, survivors huddled on rooftops. Thousands have drowned. Global warming is held accountable: People must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual."
"To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes."
"I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from."
"I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world."
"The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk."
"Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain."
"There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit."
"We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out."
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
"I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park."
"Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room."
"I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should."
"I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person."
"Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation."
"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."
"But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion."
"The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop."
"I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring."
"Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length."
"Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled, rosy-cheeked Diana she had played with in vanished schooldays? It gave her a queer desolate feeling that she herself somehow belonged only in those past years and had no business in the present at all."
"We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves."
"Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes."
"There is the staircase,there is the sun.There is the kitchen,the plate with toast and strawberry jam,your subterfuge,your ordinary mirage.You stand red-handed.You want to wash yourself in earth, in rocks and grassWhat are you supposed to dowith all this loss?In the daylight we knowwhat's gone is gone,but at night it's different.Nothing gets finished,not dying, not mourning;the dead repeat themselves, like clumsy drunkslurching sideways through the doorswe open to them in sleep;these slurred guests, never entirely welcome,even those we have loved the most,especially those we have loved the most,returning from where we shoved themaway too quickly:from under the ground, from under the water,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won't let go."
"That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison."
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