Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You … - Margaret Atwood

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I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces.

Margaret Atwood

Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.

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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

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When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.

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If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

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Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

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