Top 32 Farley Mowat Quotes
#1. I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.
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#2. As the Siberian saying goes: One hundred versts (roughly a hundred miles) is no distance. A hundred rubles isn't worthwhile money. And a hundred grams of vodka just makes you thirsty.
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#4. It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
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#5. After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.
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#8. Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
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#9. Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
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#10. the most blood thirsty animals in the Artic are not wolves, but the insatiable mosquitoes.
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#11. the free rights of men to destroy themselves through ignorance.
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#12. And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.
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#13. And so the pact of timelessness between us was broken and I went from him into the darkening tunnel of the years.
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#14. Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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#15. The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.
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#16. You never know when the devil might come calling.
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#17. I wonder now ... were my tears for Alex and Al and all the others who had gone and who were yet to go? Or was I weeping for myself ... and those who would remain?
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#18. Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.
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#19. If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.
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#21. I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
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#22. Jamie was quick to see a use for the ice sheet.
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#23. The frozen fish were later put in deep holes in the moss and covered over to keep until they were needed.
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#24. Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
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#25. Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions ...
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#26. Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away
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#27. I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
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#28. Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.
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#29. I write better in Cape Breton ... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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#30. I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
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#31. I will take any liberty I want with facts as long as I don't trespass on the truth ... We confuse facts with truth.
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#32. We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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