"There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like……" — Mordecai Richler
"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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19 Quotes by Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler has 19 quotes on this site.
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Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.
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Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here,…
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If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
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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…
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Wherever I travel I’m too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere,
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I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It…
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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…
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I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done,…
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The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.
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In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
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When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them…
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For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction…
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class…
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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