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The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.
— Mordecai Richler
Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.
— Mordecai Richler
I thought, breaking into a sweat, I'd better call Saul. I owe Kate an apology ... Damn damn damn.
— Mordecai Richler
Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.
— Mordecai Richler
I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life ...
— Mordecai Richler
Everybody writes a book too many.
— Mordecai Richler
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
— Mordecai Richler
All writing is about the same thing - it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration it creates
— Mordecai Richler
But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he or she was an absolute shit.
— Mordecai Richler
A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.
— Mordecai Richler
Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.
— Mordecai Richler
If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.
— Mordecai Richler
I'm world-famous," Dr. Parks said, "all over Canada.
— Mordecai Richler
Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.
— Mordecai Richler
I didn't know about beauty, he had thought. Nobody ever told me.
— Mordecai Richler
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
Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.
— Mordecai Richler
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
— Mordecai Richler
I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.
— Mordecai Richler
There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.
— Mordecai Richler
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
— Mordecai Richler
The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.
— Mordecai Richler
Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere,
— Mordecai Richler
The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.
— Mordecai Richler
Without a doubt, it [Canada] is the land God gave to Cain.
— Mordecai Richler
In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.
— Mordecai Richler
And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?
— Mordecai Richler
In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
— Mordecai Richler
I'm world-famous ... all over Canada.
— Mordecai Richler
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
— Mordecai Richler
Each man creates god in his own image.
— Mordecai Richler
And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?
— Mordecai Richler