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
canada coming impeccable paranoia
Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.
books huge
We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.
attitudes barney certainly
Some of the attitudes of Barney are certainly attitudes I share, but not all.
monday two age
Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.
funny world edmonton
Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.
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.
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.
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.