"Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time."

-- Stephen Marche

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“Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.”
“When I was younger it was, you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.”

Source : "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.
“It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.”

Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.293, Penguin
“One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.”
“In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.”
“I'll do anything for $50. People are always trying to get me to do dumb things. The possibilities are endless.”
“I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender”

Source : "Song: "The Pretender"". 1976.
“It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims”

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