| I am told, and have seen pictures, that he would play poker. I don’t know if he’s any good at the game. |
| C anada has no identity and never has had an identity. Any sense of identity we have is our sense of density. |
| W here Canadians got the monotone that you’re listening to now I don’t know – probably from the Canada goose. |
| C anada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. |
| I t is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. |
| T he parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say “Willie is no good; I’ll sell him.” |
| I acted on the information I have been accumulating since I was three years old. |
| S hame! It’s more than a shame. ‘Snoutrage’! |
| T here was a valid distinction between an offensive and a defensive weapon; if you were in front of it, it was offensive; if you were behind it, it was defensive. |
| A highbrow is a person who can listen to the “William Tell Overture” without thinking of the lone Ranger. |
| A stronomy is terrifying. It describes a hell in which we seem to be the only inhabitants. |
| I think that learned counsel is abusing the privilege of being stupid. |
| I n a moment the pirates were all around us, rolling their eyes, gnashing their teeth, and filing their nails. |
| T hose who would understand how monstrous the Crucifixion was should stub a toe during Holy Week. |
| A nd if I can be permitted to turn a phrase, I would say that I’m kind of sorry I won’t have you to kick around anymore. |
| F aced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. |
| L ord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. |
| L ife is a horror movie, starring people you know. |
| A nybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects. |
| A St. Valentine’s Day Massacre is just a word until you have one. |
| I do wish I could just slip off my flesh and sit in my bones for a space, to cool myself. |
| A midst all the sound and fury, I don’t expect right to prevail; I don’t expect wrong to prevail, either; I just expect the sound and fury to prevail. |
| G od made me on a morning when he had nothing else to do. |
| I f you have anything to tell me of importance, for God’s sake begin at the end. |
| I t was on Saturday night that the Scotch gathered at the McIntyre House to make merry and seek one another’s destruction. |
| W herever I travel I’m too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere. |
| M en who are attractive to most women are rarities, in this country, at any rate. I think that it is because a man, to be attractive, must be free to give his whole time to it, and the Canadian male is so hounded by taxes and the rigors of our climate that he is lucky to be alive, without being irresistible as well. |
| O kay, Dumbo, you can start. |
| W e don’t know who should win, but they should win faster than this. |
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