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You’re innocent until proven guilty,” Mandy exclaimed, unable to hide her gleeful smile. She missed the way people used to have normal conversations, used to be more caring for each other than themselves, back in the Seventies and Eighties. These days, she realized, neighbors kept to themselves, their kids kept to themselves, nobody talked to each other anymore. They went to work, went shopping and shut themselves up at home in front of glowing computer screens and cellphones… but maybe the nostalgic, better times in her life would stay buried, maybe the world would never be what it was. In the 21st century music was bad, movies were bad, society was failing and there were very few intelligent people left who missed the way things used to be… maybe though, Mandy could change things. Thinking back to the old home movies in her basement, she recalled what Alecto had told her. “We wanted more than anything else in the world to be normal, but we failed.” The 1960’s and 1970’s were very strange times, but Mandy missed it all, she missed the days when Super-8 was the popular film type, when music had lyrics that made you think, when movies had powerful meanings instead of bad comedy and when people would just walk to a friend’s house for the afternoon instead of texting in bed all day. She missed soda fountains and department stores and non-biodegradable plastic grocery bags, she wished cellphones, bad pop music and LED lights didn’t exist… she hated how everything had a diagnosis or pill now, how people who didn’t fit in with modern, lazy society were just prescribed medications without a second thought… she hated how old, reliable cars were replaced with cheap hybrid vehicles… she hated how everything could be done online, so that people could just ignore each other… the world was becoming much more convenient, but at the same time, less human, and her teenage life was considered nostalgic history now. Hanging her head low, avoiding the slightly confused stare of the cab driver through the rear view mirror, she started crying uncontrollably, her tears soaking the collar of her coat as the sun blared through the windows in a warm light.

You hear stories about people who've committed bad crimes. Suddenly they decide to confess it all, turn themselves in to the authorities, get everything off their conscience-the burden, the harm, the shame, the self-hatred. They make a clean breast of things before going off to jail. As if guilt was the worst thing in the world to them. I'm willing to say now that guilt has less to do with it than you might think. Rather, the intolerable problem is of everything suddenly being so confused: the clear path back to the past being cluttered and unfollowable; how the person once felt being now completely changed from how he feels today. And time itself: how the hours of the day and night advance so oddly-first fast, then hardly passing at all. Then the future becoming as confused and impenetrable as the past itself. What a person becomes in such a situation is paralyzed-caught in one long, sustained, intolerable present. Who wouldn't want to stop that-if he could? Make the present give way to almost any future at all. Who wouldn't admit everything just to gain release from the terrible present? I would. Only a saint wouldn't.

You’re not an artist, you’re not a scientist, you’re not an intellectual. All that’s left to you is politics.

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 your life. From what I make of it, for every person with a good thought, there are about fifty who’d try to spoil it. We have to guard our good ideas, our happy thoughts, and fight for them. Because if we let those others snuff them out, well, we didn’t after all deserve them.

You're actually each other's wingman. You never leave your partner vulnerable." - Graham Warner, husband of fun-loving seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.

A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.

All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.

Anybody who sides with Canada internationally in a debate between the U.S. and Canada, say, Belgium, is somebody whose opinion we shouldn't care about in the first place.

A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.

At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas

At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.

Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

Canada can be tough for urban music.

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

Canada is destined to be one of the great nations of the world and Canadian women must be ready for citizenship.

Canada is so far away it hardly exists.

Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.

Canada needs to dismantle its public health-care system and allow private enterprise to get involved and turn a profit.

(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.

Canada will also look into their policies to avoid a repeat. They will go after their exporter.

Canada and space are a natural fit.

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

Canada doesn’t stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it.

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine.

Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.