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- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you…
- I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I…
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look…
- I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the…
- If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships…
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to…
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up…
- You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have…
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form…
- The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.
- Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not…
- Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
- I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse…
- They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and not go wandering…
- I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used…
- You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote…
- Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
- The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I…
- and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.
- Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll…
- Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.
- I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet…
- She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had…
- We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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