- Complex
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?
- Exhilarating
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- Nov 07, 2020
For those of us whose thoughts digress; for whom unexpected juxtapositions are exhilarating rather than tiresome; who aim, if always inadequately, to convey life's experience in some semblance of its complexity - for such writers, the semi-colon is invaluable.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the world I've lived in, gay marriage, for example, seems completely logical. And yet there are many people who don't live in that world.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The feeling I had several times in youth, when lying in a field staring up at the night sky, that I might fall into the infinite void - for people like me, this idea mostly provokes anxiety.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.
- Film Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, what would be a Canadian sensibility? Is it Michael Ondaatje? Alice Munro? Is Margaret Atwood more Canadian than Neil Bissoondath?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I used to tell all these stories. I remember meeting a childhood friend, and we were talking. We remembered that I had made up this story about going to Mars. And she looked at me and said, 'I didn't sleep for a week after that!'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020