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Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

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I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

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I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

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My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

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I believe only in art and failure.

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Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

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People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

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Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

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If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: March 28th, 1931

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