Mordecai Richler Citas

• No sostengo nada con chamanes, brujos o psiquiatras. Shakespeare, Tolstoi, o incluso Dickens, entendieron más sobre la condición humana de lo que jamás se os haya ocurrido a ninguno de vosotros. Vosotros, panda de charlatanes sobrevalorados, os ocupáis de la gramática de los problemas humanos, y los escritores que he mencionado, de la esencia.

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  Doctors, Essence, Problem

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Canadá es uno de los pocos lugares que quedan donde se observan las pequeñas decencias. Si de joven despreciaba el país porque siempre parecíamos muy por detrás de la New York que marcaba estilo, ahora doy gracias a Dios por el retraso cultural. La nuestra, después de todo, es la buena vecindad. Una sociedad que merece la pena conservar.

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  Country, New York, Men

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• There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

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  Guy, Three, Sides

  Mordecai Richler (1955). “Son of a smaller hero: a novel”

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• When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.

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  Papá, Hijos, Crecer

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• Si caricaturizas a los amigos en tu primera novela se molestarán, pero si no lo haces se sentirán traicionados.

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  Writing, Upset, Betrayed

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• La belleza, como las bailarinas de ballet, da miedo a algunos hombres.

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  Beauty, Men, Dancer

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• A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

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  Boys, Men, Two

  Mordecai Richler (1999). “The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• Ya nada es absoluto. Hay una elección de creencias y una elección de verdades que las acompañan. Si no eliges, no hay verdad. Sólo hay puntos de vista.

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  Views, Choices, Belief

  Mordecai Richler (1955). “Son of a smaller hero: a novel”

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• Edmonton no es el fin del mundo pero ciertamente puedes verlo desde allí.

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  Funny, Edmonton, World

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• Cada hombre crea a dios a su propia imagen.

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  Hombres

  Mordecai Richler (1955). “Son of a smaller hero: a novel”

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• There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

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  Eight, Class, Ethics

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

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  Mom, Pain, Dad

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• El Sr. Bernard murió un lunes, a la edad de setenta y cinco años, con el cuerpo consumido. Permaneció dos días en el vestíbulo de la torre Bernard Gursky y, al no levantarse el tercero, fue debidamente enterrado.

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  Monday, Two, Age

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• La revolución se come a los suyos. El capitalismo se recrea a sí mismo.

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  Revolution, Capitalism

  Mordecai Richler (2010). “Cocksure”, p.142, Emblem Editions

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• Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

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  Writing, Frustration, Dying

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• The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

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  Growing Up, Ambition, Kids

  Quoted in Time (Canadian ed.), 31 May 1971

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• Lo que siempre he pensado de René Lévesque es que, si hubiera decidido ahorcarme, incluso al tensar la cuerda alrededor de mi cuello, se habría quejado de lo humillante que era para él abrir la trampilla. Y luego, una vez colgado, culparía a mi fantasma de haberle obligado a asesinar, imponiendo así un sentimiento de culpabilidad a un francófono dulce, pagado de sí mismo y oprimido.

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  Sweet, Spring, Self

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• Miles de kilómetros de trigo, indiferencia y autodisculpa.

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  Apology, Self, Wheat

  1971 Of Canada. St Urbain's Horseman, ch.1.

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• 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.

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  Yesterday, Waiting, Today

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• Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

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  Too Late, Late, Elsewhere

  Mordecai Richler (1978). “The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays”, New Canadian Library

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• 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.

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  Dream, Believe, College

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• Well, people have been wondering what's going to happen to the novel for two hundred years; its death has been announced many times. You know, I think the novel keeps redefining the world we live in. What you should look for in a novel is a window nobody else is looking out of, that nobody else can look through. What you look for is a voice. You pick up a novel by someone such as Faulkner or Hemingway and you just read three pages and you know who wrote it. And that's what one should demand of a novelist.

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  Pensar, Años, Dos

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• I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.

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  Writing, Office, Rooms

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• Bueno, cuando yo era un joven escritor la gente que leíamos era Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. Y para empezar, yo era un escritor un poco imitador y muy derivativo y traté de escribir una novela usando sus voces, realmente.... Lo mantengo fuera de imprenta.

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  Escritura, Voz, Personas

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• Para que conste, la marihuana, al igual que el Reader's Digest , no crea necesariamente hábito, pero ambos pueden conducir a una adicción dura: heroína, en un caso, libros malos abreviados, en el otro. Se mire como se mire, una retirada de una vida con sentido.

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  Meaningful, Book, Addiction

  Mordecai Richler (1974). “Notes on an endangered species and others”, Alfred A. Knopf

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