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Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.

Mordecai Richler

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.

Tags: 1982, 1989, acidic, bar, barfly, beautiful, callahan, canada, captain al cohol, colonial

Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.

Mordecai Richler

Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.

Tags: celebration, chastisement, debauchery, drunk, honeymoon, humour, marriage, philandering, true love, wedding

About Author
Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) and Barney's Version (1997). His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were nominated for the Booker Prize. He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two fantasy series for children. In addition to his fiction, Richler wrote numerous essays about the Jewish community in Canada, and about Canadian and Quebec nationalism. Richler's Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! (1992), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-Semitism, generated considerable controversy.

I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life...

Mordecai Richler

I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life...

Tags: memory, regret, reminiscence, rue, scattered thoughts, wistful

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, r...

Mordecai Richler

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, r...

Tags: differences, flaws, hurt, inequality, insecurity, romaticism, societal degredation

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

Mordecai Richler

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

Tags: morning

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

Mordecai Richler

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

Tags: canada, canadians

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

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

Tags: canada, canadians

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

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.

Tags: morality, ethics

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 th...

Mordecai Richler

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 th...

Tags: pressure, diamonds, one, day

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

Mordecai Richler

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

Tags: travel, travellers

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...

Mordecai Richler

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...

Tags: writers, writing

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

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.

Tags: writers, writing