8 Quotes & Sayings By Hugh Maclennan

Hugh MacLennan is a Canadian author, filmmaker, educator, researcher, and literary translator. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he is the recipient of many awards including the Governor General’s Award for French-language fiction for his book of short stories Le Chant du Roi. His translation of The Red and the White by Romain Gary won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation in 1991. He has also written some one hundred articles on various subjects including environmentalism, ecology, feminism and literature Read more

He is currently completing his first novel.

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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. Hugh MacLennan
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An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form. Hugh MacLennan
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The Greeks who knew everything understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country. Hugh MacLennan
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The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec. Hugh MacLennan
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The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them. Hugh MacLennan
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The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted. Hugh MacLennan
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A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. Hugh MacLennan