Farley Mowat Quotes

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• I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
• Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
• We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God…
• I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
• It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
• I believe in God the way my dog does
• Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he…
• Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
• The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.
• I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother…
• If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
• I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me,…
• Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions...
• Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing…
• We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of…
• And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is…
• Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
• You never know when the devil might come calling.

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