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Category: Hugh MacLennan

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

writers, writing

The farmer’s way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and 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.

irony, necessity, tragedy, understanding