Quotes About Miriam Toews

The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you're perceived as a comic writer, there's a real snobbery, and you can't be serious. You're not a big hitter.

And all our righteousnesses are filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our inequities like the wind have taken us away

Where are they going to get a camera? I asked. I don't know, said Noehmi. They'll probably get sidetracked along the way. Or they'll come back with paint instead, or beer, or some new idea for a circus or something. They're social anarchists.

two days before he disappeared, told me that the twin pillars that guard the entrance to the shrine of religion are storytelling and cruelty.)

He says it's a condition of our relationship that I don't smoke, she says. We laugh. We are tired. Too tired to confront conditions.

because I told him that it was ludicrous to think that we could just talk our way out of shame, that shame was

What had she said about libraries and civilization? Because you make a promise, she'd said. You promise to return the book. You promise to come back.