Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

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If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

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A lot of people facing fascism didn’t become fascists. I don’t happen to believe that we are all monsters.

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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

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