- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you join the army, you are asked to lay down your life for your country. That is a tremendous oath to take. In return, a good country should offer that soldier every possible means it can to allow that soldier to stay alive and, upon return, healthy - both mentally and physically.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll be okay because, after all, you're with me, because I'm a warm convivial voice. But let's be entertained by this horrible stuff.' I didn't like that.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never in my life categorized a year of my life as good or bad. I just think I'm living a good life, warts and all.
- Gnaw
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few years ago, I was trying to buy a piece of land next to a house I had in Newfoundland. I discovered that the plot had been owned by a family, and the son had gone off to World War I and been killed. It began to interest me: What would have happened on that land if the son had lived, had brought up his own family there?
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the idea that any kind of disaster helps create a nation seems a ridiculous one. There was no family in the house on the land next to me, and there might have been.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, there was the same sort of talk of young men sacrificing their lives so that a country might grow - that somehow it had been a great nation-building success for Newfoundland.
- Being Silly
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels.
- Kitchen
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020