All Robertson Davies Quotes
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
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Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.
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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
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Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
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