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Quotes by Allan Dare Pearce

But, ladies and gentlemen, we will also be asked to make sacrifices in matters that are not our affair and that do not concern us, sacrifices that would leave our people bleeding or wounded, or even dead, from battle. There is no equality for us in this lifetime.

Until the War, we claimed to be equal; simpletons, some say, but equal man to man.

Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and caning sounds more English than having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.

Schizophrenia. Always a bitch.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Everyone loves a girl who can rise to a crisis.

Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?

Theyll want to kill the crazies first. Big fish eat little fish -- always have, always will.

Insanity is not a fit topic for high-school children.

A woman only needs one pair of shoes for an outfit. But God, youve got to get it just right.

Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to uncloak, if you will -- these unconscious desires, the things that your mind tries to repress, those secrets of your soul.

Only one person can own any plate at a time. It belongs to the pitcher, or it belongs to the batter, Aiken, but not to both. You understand.

Do a lot of questions mean you are really smart or really dumb?

Surely you can see the failings of the system. Inequality, injustice, unfairness, and exploitation--

There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.

When you reach voting age, we will take your opinion under consideration.

I guess its the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.