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Marian Engel, OC, née Marian Ruth Passmore (May 24, 1933 – February 16, 1985) was a Canadian novelist and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada. Her most famous and controversial novel was Bear (1976), a tale of erotic love between a librarian and a bear.

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I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.

Fall, People, Tried, Trying

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

Alcohol, Dangerous, Drinking, House

Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.

Beautiful, Choices, Enough, Keep, Pretending, Pride

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

Art, Difference, Differences, Readability, Understanding

All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

Hypocrisy, Intellectual, Lechery, Missionaries, Tend

There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.

Kind, Difficulty, Virgins, Becomes

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