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In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.
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But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.
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Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.
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The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
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We have just reached the outer fringes of the Solar System. Can any sane man possibly argue that we should stop there?
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The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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Hugh MacLennan
Born:
March 20, 1907
Died:
November 9, 1990
(aged 83)
Bio:
John Hugh MacLennan was a Canadian author and professor of English at McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award.
Known for:
Two Solitudes (1945)
Barometer Rising (1941)
The Watch That Ends the Night (1958)
Voices in Time (1980)
Each Man's Son (1951)
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