"I'm world-famous ... all over Canada."

-- Mordecai Richler

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“Wit is a thing capable of proof.”
“Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.”

Source : Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”
“Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently from an animal which knows that p - talk of knowledge is necessary once one begins to look at explaining the cognitive capacities of a species.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.”
“I must find a truth that is true for me.”
“In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.”
“On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.”
“I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.”

Source : Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.109, Vintage

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