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64 quotes from Mordecai Richler: 'I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you.
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1. 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. 2. The chief rabbi of the underworld, that's me.
Barney's Version
1. I was a voracious reader, but you would be mistaken if you took that as evidence of my quality.
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1. 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 bor...
...the contempt that he has for Quebecers, and for the facts, that trickles from every page, hurt me, as a Quebecer, [...] as a journalist also, as an author, the intellectual dishonesty with which...
Every Goy's Guide to Richler: Yiddish phrases & Jewish cultural references in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Tweet. The revolution eats its own. Capitalism recreates itself. MORDECAI RICHLER, Cocksure. Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.
Jul 3, 2001 · Fortunately for Richler, he gathered support from celebrated journalists such as Robert Fulford and Peter Gzowski, who claim Richler as an orator of uncomfortable truths. Here are some of the famous quotes from this legendary American author, highlighting his thoughts and sayings.
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