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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
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.
Irving Layton
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
Irving Layton
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horrorwhen He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
Irving Layton
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
Irving Layton
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton
If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
Irving Layton
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Irving Layton
Since I no longer expectanything from mankind exceptmadness,meanness, and mendacityegotism,cowardice,andself-delusion, I have stoppedbeing amisanthrope.
Irving Layton
An aphorismshould belike a burrsting,and leavea little soreness. . .
Irving Layton
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
Irving Layton
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.
Irving Layton