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Frosh-week songs are meant to be offensive because offensive is rebellious.

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Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the tribe is defined by opposition to other tribes. Our tribe, and its traditional ways, is superior to other tribes because it is ours.

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Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

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The locale does not determine the dress code; the host does.

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A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.

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Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.

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There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.

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Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.

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I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.

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Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: August 2nd, 1963

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