My TV show enraged people. I had prostitutes on, and I treated them like real people.. I was fired from Maclean's after I wrote a piece called 'Let's Stop Hoaxing The Kids About Sex'. Now I'm the 'beloved author, ' the 'beloved historian of Canada, ' an icon. I get standing ovations.. I never set out to be a patriot or a popular historian. I just liked storytelling. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)] . Pierre Berton
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  1. I was hated, you know. I made no secret of the fact that I was an atheist. People told me there are no atheists in fox holes. That's nonsense. [interview promoting Marching as to War (2002)]
  2. Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.
  3. The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.
  4. I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.
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