Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Hugh MacLennan

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Last updated on September 18, 2024.

John Hugh MacLennan was a Canadian writer and professor of English at McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award.

Canadian - Author | March 20, 1907 - November 9, 1990

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In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

Hugh MacLennan

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

Hugh MacLennan

But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

Hugh MacLennan

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

Hugh MacLennan

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

Hugh MacLennan

The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.

Hugh MacLennan

The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

Hugh MacLennan

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Hugh MacLennan

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