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Hugh MacLennan quotes

Canadian Author March 20, 1907 – November 7, 1990

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Wise Penelope! That's was Odysseus said to his wife when he got home. I don't think he ever told her he loved her. He probably knew the words would sound too small. Hugh MacLennan
Hugh MacLennan quote: "Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns..."
Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity. Hugh MacLennan
Hugh MacLennan quote: "In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is..."
In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless. Hugh MacLennan
Timothy's eyes followed the straight back, the high shoulders, and the crisp white hair out of the door and out of his life -- a man, so he was to write years later, the like of whom he was never to met again, "because he was the only man I ever knew who could use words like honour, duty, and responsibility without making me feel like throwing up." Hugh MacLennan
Hugh MacLennan quote: "Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything"
Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything Hugh MacLennan
Hugh MacLennan quote: "Happiness annihilates time."
Happiness annihilates time. Hugh MacLennan
Now, Dr. Anderson, you've been telling us how the world began and how brilliant it was of all the scientists to be able to find it out." He paused and deployed his most innocent smile. "But of course there were no scientists around when the world began." Another pause, "Now I have a question with which Science -- I hope I'm not getting out of my league -- may be more humanly involved." Another pause. "How do you think the worldwill end? Hugh MacLennan
It was as though the whole world was thrown back six or seven hundred years without having the organizations those ancient peoples had." He paused, breathing heavily. "Of course, there were many survivors who understood small skills. Some of them would repair small engines, but they couldn't manufacture them. They couldn't refine fuels. Fortunately a good many doctors who had practiced in small towns and in the country survived. They had their medical books, but they could no longer get the... Hugh MacLennan
But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that 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
Hugh MacLennan quote: "This campus was an island of quiet in the city's roar, and at..."
This campus was an island of quiet in the city's roar, and at night it was an island of dark in the city's blaze. Hugh MacLennan
He sat down again. He wanted her body, even though there were plenty of other bodies he could have. Which meant, I suppose, that he wanted her body to want his. It would have been beneath his intellectual dignity to admit that he also wanted her soul to like his own soul. Hugh MacLennan

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