“Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.”
― Mordecai Richler, quote from Solomon Gursky Was Here
“It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moments. I missed mine. Yes is what I should have said. Of course I should have said yes.”
― Mordecai Richler, quote from Solomon Gursky Was Here
“If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche or the Plains of Abraham or Fort Walsh or Charlottetown or Parliament Hill, but in The Caboose and thousands of bars like it that knit the country together from Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, to the far side of Vancouver Island.”
― Mordecai Richler, quote from Solomon Gursky Was Here
“Without a doubt, it [Canada] is the land God gave to Cain.”
― Mordecai Richler, quote from Solomon Gursky Was Here
Mordecai Richler
Born place: in Montreal, Canada
Born date January 27, 1931
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“Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father's crying. I've had no time to harden my heart against him.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Double Identity
“اسأ نفسك هذه الاسئلة ما الذى تحتاج الاعتراف به ؟ كيف خدعت نفسك والاخرين ؟ وما المواقف التى استسلمت فيها واذعنت ؟ لماذا تركت نفسك يستنزفها نظام تعرف انه ظالم ؟ ماذا ستفعل لتتأكد ان اطفالك وكل الاطفال يمكنهم ان يحققوا حلم الاباء المؤسسين للمثل والقيم حلم الحياة والحرية وبلوغ السعادة ؟ اى طريق ستسير فيه لتتوقف مجاعات لا مبرر لها ولتتأكد انه لن يتكرر ابدا يوم مثل الحادى عشر من سبتمبر ؟ كيف تستطيع مساعدة اطفالك كى يفهموا ان الناس الذين يعيشون حياة مترفة وغير متوازنة يجب ان نرثى لحالهم ولا نتمنى تقليدهم باى حال حتى اذا كان هؤلاء الناس يقدمون انفسهم من خلال وسائل الاعلام التى يملكونها على انهم ايقونات ثقافية محاولين اقناعنا ان المساكن الفخمة واليخوت تجلب السعادة ؟ ما التغيرات التى سالتزم بها لتعديل ما اتخذه من مواقف وما اعتقده من مفاهيم ؟ ما الاشكال التى ساستخدمها لتنوير الاخرين واكتساب المزيد من المعرفة ؟”
― John Perkins, quote from Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“He considered the importance of what he was to do, and calmed himself. He felt the dragon’s mood and acknowledged it. It was a willingness to accept whatever fate brought, but without a resignation to defeat. Death might come, but with it might also come victory.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from A Darkness At Sethanon
“I feel like a bird!” he cried. The words were hardly out of his mouth before he felt his paws slipping. For a heart-stopping moment he thought the wind would bowl him over to plummet down to the rocks below. The landscape whirled sickeningly around him. Then teeth fastened in his scruff and yanked him back to safety. He looked up to see Crowfeather. “Thanks,” he gasped. “Just remember you’re not a bird,” the WindClan cat growled.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Outcast
“The time of the Clans was coming to an end, and he, Lionblaze, and Hollyleaf were the only ones who could save them.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Eclipse
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