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I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.

Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern

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Mordecai Richler
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Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Mordecai Richler, based on documented lifetime 1931 to 2001. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452282 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452282 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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