Will Ferguson quotes
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“With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.”
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“Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.”
-- Will FergusonSource : Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”
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“Hellraisers destroy only themselves, and they do it because they love life too much to fall asleep.”
-- Will FergusonSource : Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”
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“The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.”
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“You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.”
-- Will FergusonSource : Will Ferguson (2010). “Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada”, p.220, Vintage Canada
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“I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian.”
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“Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.”
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“You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.”
-- Will FergusonSource : Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”
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“Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.”
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“It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.”
Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 3),
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“If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.”
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“The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.”
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