Fame warps your identity, metastasizes your anxieties, and hollows you out like a jack-o'-lantern. It's sparkly pixie dust that burns whatever it touches like acid.

—Elan Mastai in All Our Wrong Todays

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About Elan Mastai

Elan Mastai is a Canadian screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for The F Word, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014.

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Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face. You feel sick with guilt and regret and sadness about inconsequential anecdote. You can't remember anything thoughtful or sweet or tender that you ever did even though logically you know you must have. All you can recall is how often you were small and petty and false. She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and now she's gone.

—Elan Mastai in All Our Wrong Todays

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Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

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Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

—Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell the Wolves I'm Home

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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?

—Grace Hopper

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I am a part of everything that I have read.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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History

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