Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler, CCwas a Quebec-Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitzand Barney's Version. His 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two children's fantasy series...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth27 January 1931
CountryCanada
revolution capitalism
The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.
umpires giving canada
In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.
apology self wheat
Thousands of miles of wheat, indifference, and self- apology.
paris hashish institutions
Listen your Lordship, I'm a respecter of institutions. Even in Paris, I remained a Canadian. I puffed hashish, but I didn't inhale.
father dying ashes
Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.
self scene knocking
Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.
dream believe college
In, 1950, at the age, 19 I dropped out of St. George William College in Montreal, as it then was, and sailed for England on the Franconia. Foolishly, no arrogantly, believing I could put Canada and its picayune problems behind me, never dreaming it would become the raw material of most of my fiction and non-fiction. Or that I would care so deeply about its surviving intact.
yesterday waiting today
I have always been skeptical of medical orthodoxies, because sooner, rather than later, so many of them are turned on their heads. Or, put another way, providing you are prepared to wait it out, what was adjudged bad for you yesterday is likely to prove beneficial today.
writing years four
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.
too-late late elsewhere
Wherever I travel I’m too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere,
beauty men dancer
Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.
views choices belief
Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.
phones missing age
This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.
jehovah ifs humorists
If you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humorists in the Bible.