Jean Margaret Laurence, CC (1926–87) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers’ Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada’s writing community.
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Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
—Margaret Laurence
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
—Margaret Laurence
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
—Margaret Laurence
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