Irving Layton quotes

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. (Irving Layton)
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. View quote
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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. View quote
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. View quote
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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horrorwhen He saw the creature He had made in His own image. View quote
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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love. View quote
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Idealist: a cynic in the making. View quote
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets. View quote
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. View quote
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Since I no longer expectanything from mankind exceptmadness,meanness, and mendacityegotism,cowardice,andself-delusion, I have stoppedbeing amisanthrope. View quote
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It amazes me that organs that piss; Can give human beings such perfect bliss. (Irving Layton)
An aphorismshould belike a burrsting,and leavea little soreness. . . View quote
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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. View quote
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Progress of a marriage There was a time when you couldn'tmake me happy. Now the time has come when you can'tmake me unhappy. View quote
Irving Layton

Irving Layton

Occupation: Canadian Poet
Born: March 12, 1912
Died: January 4, 2006
Quotes count: 14
Wikipedia: Irving Layton

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