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If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

- Mordecai Richler | Canada and Canadians Quotes

Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.

- Mordecai Richler | Canada and Canadians Quotes

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.

- Mordecai Richler | Morality and Ethics Quotes

Wherever I travel, I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

- Mordecai Richler | Travel and Travellers Quotes

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.

- Mordecai Richler | Writers and Writing Quotes

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.

- Mordecai Richler | Writers and Writing Quotes

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my 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 get the fourth without it.

- Mordecai Richler | One Day Quotes

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my 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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