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Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler

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Birthday January 27, 1931

Birthplace Montreal, Québec, Canada

Death July 3, 2001

Manner of Death Natural Causes

Nationality Canada

Occupations Children's Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

Religion Judaism

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A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

— Duddy Kravitz, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

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A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

— Duddy Kravitz, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

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It's a battlefield, he thought, it sure is. But you and I, Duddy, we're officers, and that makes it harder. We're captains of our souls, so to speak, and they're the cabin boys.

— Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

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Experience doesn't teach: it deforms.

— Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

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There's more to you than mere money-lust, Duddy, but I'm afraid for you. You're two people that's why. The scheming little bastard I saw so easily, and the fine, intelligent boy underneath that your grandfather, bless him, saw. But you're coming of age soon and you'll have to choose. A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

— Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

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Duddy, it's not easy to earn a living. If you went out in the trade and asked about me there are lots of men who would tell you Cohen is a lousy son of a bitch. You think I've never had troubles? You think you run a scrap yard for twenty-five years next September without accidents or lawsuits or under the table pay-offs or lies? There's not one successful businessman I know, Duddy, who hasn't got something locked in the closet. A fire, maybe. A quick bankruptcy, the swindling of a widow...funny business with a mortgage...a diddle with an insurance agent. It's either that or you go under, so decide right now. You're going to drive a taxi all your life or build a house like this and spend the winters in Miami.

— Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

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