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“The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything”

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Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock was a renowned Canadian writer known for his humor and satire. His works, which extensively covered social commentary and satirical novels, have had a profound impact on later generations. more

“The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.”

People World Stills Different War Earth Young Vision Century Spring Destruction Horizon Young Women Different Peoples Different Place

Author:Joseph Boyden

“But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.”

Humans Important Action Night Simple Consequence Tragedy Pressure Irony Explanation Obscure Compulsion Montreal

Book:Watch that Ends the Night

Source: Watch that Ends the Night

“Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.”

Self Turns Burden Captivity

Book:The watch that ends the night: a novel

Source: The watch that ends the night: a novel

“In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.”

Humans Human Beings Comparison Worthless

Book:Each Man's Son

Source: Each Man's Son

“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.”

Enough Beautiful Remember Choices Decision Pride Goes On Pretending Flux

Author:Marian Engel

“I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.”

Men Kind Done Faces Race Worst Flower Gold Horse Ugly Cups Things Done Ugly Face

Book:John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917

Source: John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917

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