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Mordecai Richler

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Mordecai Richler Quotes

Total quotes: 4

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Mordecai Richler

Birthname

Birthday: January 27, 1931

Birthplace: Montreal, Québec, Canada

Death: July 3, 2001

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: Canada

Occupations: Children's Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

Religion: Judaism

Total quotes: 4

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

— Duddy Kravitz, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Tagged: Life

“It's a battlefield, he thought, it sure is. But you and I, Duddy, we're officers, and that makes it harder. We're captains of our souls, so to speak, and they're the cabin boys.”

— Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Tagged: Life

“Experience doesn't teach: it deforms.”

— Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Tagged: Life

“There's more to you than mere money-lust, Duddy, but I'm afraid for you. You're two people that's why. The scheming little bastard I saw so easily, and the fine, intelligent boy underneath that your grandfather, bless him, saw. But you're coming of age soon and you'll have to choose. A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.”

— Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Tagged: Life

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