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Mordecai Richler Quotes: If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.
         

If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.


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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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A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.



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There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.



Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.



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.

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.



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.

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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Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.



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Each man creates god in his own image.



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Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.



Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.





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Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.



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I guess [Richard] Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because he was such a phenomenal actor.



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Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.



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Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage.




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