"Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell"

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Source : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

Irving Layton

#United States Quotes #Looks Quotes #Canada Quotes

“To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.”
“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...”
“But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?”

Source : 1940 Pal Joey, ch.1.
“I fired the ball for the purpose of giving those dudes to understand upon what ground I stood, believing that those of this class who believe that there are no women capable of taking care of themselves when young, would inform their friends that they might be in danger of their lives if they approached me.”
“I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.”
“Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.”
“In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.”

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