Mordecai Richler Quotes

• The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn’t thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

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• Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn’t inhale.

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• Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now.

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• Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self-apology.

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• 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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• The process hasn’t changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

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• 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.

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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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• Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

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• Everybody writes a book too many.

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• Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.

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• In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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Mordecai Richler (15)

Birth:	27th January, 1931
Death:	3rd July, 2001
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Author, Essayist, Screenwriter

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