Mordecai Richler Quotes

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over. I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that actually they had only just begun.

Mordecai Richler

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• I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'

  

  Karen Robards
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Intellectual

• I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Love
  • Dress

• Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Women
  • Home
  • Reason

• I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Long
  • Care

• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Trade

• Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Champion
  • Train
  • Mindset

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Rap

• The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Sad

• Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Successful
  • First

• As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Reading
  • Human
  • Survival

• We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Space
  • Needs
  • Nation

• Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nadaTeu exagera ou exclui.Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto ésNo mínimo que fazes.Assim em cada lago a lua todaBrilha, porque alta vive.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• And so the arbitrary union of three incommensurate, mutually disconnected concepts became the basis of a bewildering theory... by which one of the lowest renderings of art, art for mere pleasure - against which all of the master teachers warned - was idealized as the ultimate in art.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Art

• It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.

  

  Dorothy Stratten
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trust

• Everybody in the NBA is good. And then you have the really good ones and the great ones.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Good
  • Great

• I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Good
  • Party
  • Couple

• It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

  

  Epictetus
  • Society
  • Carry
  • Judgements

• I played drums growing up. I rapped and everything.

  

  Trevor Daniel
  • Growing Up
  • Drums

• I don't believe in luck.

  

  Nelly
  • Believe
  • Luck

• My nature is feminist. How could you not be a feminist and be alive? The world is full of brilliant, interesting women.

  

  Ali Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Nature

• I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over. I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that actually they had only just begun.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Believe
  • Problem
  • Serious