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~ Mordecai Richler Quote
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials
~ Mordecai Richler Quote
In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
~ Mordecai Richler Quote
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
~ Mordecai Richler Quote
I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.
~ Mordecai Richler Quote
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustrations that it creates.
~ Mordecai Richler Quote
We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.
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Wherever I travel, I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.
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Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.
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Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.
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I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.
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There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
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If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
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Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.
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Remember this, Griffin. The revolution eats its own. Capitalism recreates itself
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