Mordecai Richler Quotes

If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

Mordecai Richler

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• Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

  

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• It's not wrong to be skeptical. I was one who participated in the debate on Iraq and voted against the resolution because I was skeptical of the intelligence. But that was based on looking at the facts, analyzing the case in as rational and as logical way as you can, not simply concluding or dismissing facts.

  

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• I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

  

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• There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.

  

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• If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

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• The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.

  

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• If I was so establishment, I don't think Our Revolution... would actually endorse me.

  

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• We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

  

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• You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.

  

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• Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.

  

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• Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

  

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• Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

  

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• Most of my friends are in the industry - photographers, models, stylists, and social media kids.

  

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• The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

  

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• I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

  

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• The very word 'sorrow' colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

  

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• If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Humorists
  • Jehovah