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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

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Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 28th, 1913

Died: December 2nd, 1995

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