Quotes about Canadian literature

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You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of yo — J.M. Lavallee, The Wishing Stone and Other Myths Learned on Gull Cliff Island
If I had had a daughter, I always knew what I would tell her. First of all, I would try to counter all outdated stereoty — Doris Anderson, Rebel Daughter : An Autobiography
A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clo — George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls
My first jailbreak began when a coarse-toothed mechanic’s file crashed through the window of the Deeper Harbour PoliceSt — Steve Vernon
The moon twangs its silver strings;The river swoons into town;The wind beds down in the pines,Covers itself with stars. — George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls
In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,Malnourished poems that professors love;The bad grammar and dirty words that ca — George Elliott Clarke, Whylah Falls
We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal. — J.C. Villamere, Is Canada Even Real?: How a Nation Built on Hobos, Beavers, Weirdos, and Hip Hop Convinced the World to Beliebe
The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the strait — Northrop Frye, The Bush Garden