Alistair MacLeod Quotes

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And then there came into my heart a very great love for my father and I thought it was very much braver to spend a life doing what you really do not want rather than selfishly following forever your own dreams and inclinations.

Alistair MacLeod

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

Alistair MacLeod

Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.

Alistair MacLeod

Alistair MacLeod

Alistair MacLeod

Born: July 20, 1936

Died: April 20, 2014 (aged 77)

Bio: Alistair MacLeod was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic.

Known for:

No Great Mischief (1999)
Island (1989)
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976)
To Every Thing There Is a Season (1998)

Alistair MacLeod on Wikipedia

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