Best Canadian Literature Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“... success, and the success brought cash and cash brought debt and the debt brought drive for more, and more they had the more they needed and the more they wanted and their eyes showed that determined singular insanity and the universe laughed, and obese men, pregnant with madness spent obscene amounts ...”

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Book:Mechanical Bull

Source: Mechanical Bull

“[he] arrived at her heart from the shadows, where money from honest hardworking people in hands of elected officials delivered on developed world’s savage cultural goals, and banal bureaucracy bankrolled genocide. ...”

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Book:Mechanical Bull

Source: Mechanical Bull

“It is in agony we find our soul, ...”

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Author:Michal Majernik

“... and the success brought cash and cash brought debt and the debt brought drive for more, and more they had the more they needed and the more they wanted and their eyes showed that determined singular insanity and the universe laughed, ...”

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Author:Michal Majernik

“Him and his kin were designed for 21st century from semen of ancient Atlantis cannibal bloodlines and germ of derelict inbred angels.”

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Book:Mechanical Bull

Source: Mechanical Bull

“Her writing is beautiful yet shocking, has depths, layers, and twists for advanced thinkers, but is also easy to read and understand for average readers. ... powerful, dark, expect occasional foul language.”

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Author:Yateen Maria

“She comes to naught, my dear one, she comes to naught, all that there business. What the hell, maybe twice in your life you have yourself a whore of a good time, and then you spend every night of the rest of your life trying to get that good time back. But she comes to naught.”

Cape Breton Canadian Literature

Book:Strange Heaven

Source: Strange Heaven

“But maybe when you never say a thing, your thoughts spread like mould.”

Canadian Literature Canlit

Book:Little Cat

Source: Little Cat

“A rural Venus, Selah rises from the gold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweeps petals of water from her skin. At once, clouds begin to sob for such beauty. Clothing drops like leaves. "No one makes poetry,my Mme. Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,” I whisper. She smiles: “We’ll shape it with our souls.” Desire illuminates the dark manuscript of our skin with beetles and butterflies. After the lightning and rain has ceased, after the lightning and rain of lovemaking has ceased, Selah will dive again into the sunflower-open river.”

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Book:Whylah Falls

Source: Whylah Falls

“The mountains of Nakusp slid into Lake Arrow, dipping gingerly into the water. A reflection of green and blue glittered on the surface and I loved how the mountains stared at their own beauty.”

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Book:Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit

Source: Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit

“All the things she couldn’t say, the things no one wanted to hear.”

Canadian Literature Can Lit

Book:Cosmo

Source: Cosmo

“The truth is Canada is a cloud-cuckoo-land, an insufferably rich country governed by idiots, its self-made problems offering comic relief to the ills of the real world out there, where famine and racial strife and vandals in office are the unhappy rule.”

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Book:Barney's Version

Source: Barney's Version

“We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.”

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Book:Is Canada Even Real?: How a Nation Built on Hobos, Beavers, Weirdos, and Hip Hop Convinced the World to Beliebe

Source: Is Canada Even Real?: How a Nation Built on Hobos, Beavers, Weirdos, and Hip Hop Convinced the World to Beliebe