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Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler

Birthname

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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