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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
"I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past."
"I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here."
"I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats."
"I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook."
"Houses are like people, Agent Lemieux. They have secrets. I'll tell you something I've learned.'Armand Gamache dropped his voice so that Agent Lemieux had to strain to hear.'Do you know what makes us sick, Agent Lemieux?'Lemieux shook his head. Then out of the darkness and stillness he heard the answer.'It's our secrets that make us sick."
"If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people."
"I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life."
"It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft."
"If being in a relationship never causes you any grief, consider that maybe while you might physically be 'in' the relationship; mentally and emotionally you may have 'checked out' of the relationship. Relationships take an active presence in order to actually 'be' relationships. You can't 'care' without caring and caring isn't just for sunny days."
"If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived."
"It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice."
"Sons branch out but one woman leads to another."
"Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller."
"The joy of small that makes life large."
"Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?"
"Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion."
"I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men."
"My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart."
"It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?"
"Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability."
"I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror."
"Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved."
"Grief was dagger-shaped and sharp and pointed inward. It was made of fresh loss and old sorrow. Rendered and forged and sometimes polished. Irene Finney had taken her daughter's death and to that sorrow she'd added a long life of entitlement and disappointment, of privilege and pride. And the dagger she'd fashioned was taking a brief break from slashing her insides, and was now pointed outward."
"In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them."
"I just sit where I'm put, composedof stone and wishful thinking:that the deity who kills for pleasurewill also heal,that in the midst of your nightmare,the final one, a kind lionwill come with bandages in her mouthand the soft body of a woman,and lick you clean of fever, and pick your soul up gently by the nape of the neckand caress you into darkness and paradise."
"The problems you have are there for me to help you solve, not to have with you."
"Some do not want to create rich experiences for others, others lack the ability to do so, but most just want to experience being rich, with little to no other experience."
"In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination."
"Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?"
"Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano."
"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
"You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself."
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