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Mordecai Richler
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“This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.”
Mordecai Richler (1931–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The chief rabbi of the underworld, that's me.”
Mordecai Richler (1931–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was a voracious reader, but you would be mistaken if you took that as evidence of my quality.”
Mordecai Richler (1931–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.”
Mordecai Richler (1931–2001) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Donald Smith, D'une nation à l'autre: des deux solitudes à la cohabitation (Montreal: Éditions Alain Stanké, 1997), p. 61.
“So far as one can generalize, the most gracious, cultivated, and innovative people in this country are French Canadians. Certainly they have given us the most exciting politicians of our time: Trudeau, Lévesque. Without them, Canada would be an exceedingly boring and greatly diminished place.”
Mordecai Richler (1931–2001) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Donald Smith, D'une nation à l'autre: des deux solitudes à la cohabitation (Montreal: Éditions Alain Stanké, 1997), p. 61.
“Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. French-Canadians consumed by self-pity; the descendants of Scots who fled the Duke of Cumberland; Irish, the famine; and Jews, the Black Hundreds. Then there are the peasants from Ukraine, Poland, Italy and Greece, convenient to grow wheat and dig out the ore and swing the hammers and run the restaurants, but otherwise to be kept in their place. Most of us are huddled tight to the border, looking into the candy store window, scared of the Americans on one side and of the bush on the other.”
Mordecai Richler (1931–2001) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Mark Steyn, "Mordecai Richler, 1931-2001", New Criterion (September 2001), Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 123–128.