Hugh MacLennan quotes
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“Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.”
-- Hugh MacLennanSource : Hugh MacLennan (2011). “Voices in Time”, p.182, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
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“But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.”
-- Hugh MacLennanSource : Hugh MacLennan (2009). “Watch that Ends the Night”, p.266, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
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“Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.”
-- Hugh MacLennanSource : Hugh MacLennan (1975). “The watch that ends the night: a novel”, Macmillan of Canada, 1975
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“In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.”
-- Hugh MacLennanSource : Hugh Maclennan (2009). “Each Man's Son”, p.310, New Canadian Library
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“The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.”
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“The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.”
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“The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.”
-- Hugh MacLennanSource : Hugh Maclennan (2009). “Two Solitudes”, p.119, New Canadian Library
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Source : Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1862). “The Recreations of a Country Parson”, p.325
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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