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“The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.”

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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

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“The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.”

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Book:The Penguin Stephen Leacock

Source: The Penguin Stephen Leacock

“The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.”

Parent Boys Sells Parenting Shakes

Author:Stephen Leacock

“Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.”

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Book:Feast of Stephen

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“The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.”

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Author:Stephen Leacock

“The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.”

Men Walks Feet Century Greatness Mark Great Men Over It

Author:Stephen Leacock

“Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.”

“With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.”

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Author:Gail Sheehy

“With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.”

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Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.”

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Book:The Colossus

Source: The Colossus

“For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”

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