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Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

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Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

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When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

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Canada was built on dead beavers.

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I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

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As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

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

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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

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If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 18th, 1939

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