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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
~ Robertson Davies
Childhood
Happy
Happy Childhood
Life
Many
Promising
Spoiled
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
~ Robertson Davies
Mere
Opera
World
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
~ Robertson Davies
Again
Age
Book
Building
Fine
Great
Great Book
Light
Maturity
Moonlight
More
Morning
Noon
Old
Old Age
Once
Once More
Read
Seen
Should
Truly
Youth
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
~ Robertson Davies
Authors
Because
Cats
Creatures
Like
Lovable
Quiet
Reasons
Same
Wise
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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
~ Robertson Davies
Adventures
Canada
Encouraged
Large
Place
Really
Spiritual
Where
You
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
~ Robertson Davies
Actually
Almost
Almost All
Anybody
Best
Books
Classics
Diet
Diets
God
Guaranteed
However
Hundred
Intend
Known
Nothing
People
Read
Reading
Save
Seen
Suppose
Urge
Us
Who
Work
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Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
~ Robertson Davies
Attacked
Dog
Every
Every Man
Fewer
Mad
Man
Notion
Only
Pursued
Survive
Wise
Wisest
Woman
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
~ Robertson Davies
Because
Become
Circumstances
Extraordinary
Extraordinary People
More
Most
People
Survive
Terrible
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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
~ Robertson Davies
Doubt
Fanaticism
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
~ Robertson Davies
Few
Few People
Genius
Offended
People
See
Someone
Them
Who
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I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
~ Robertson Davies
Get
Ideas
Me
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.
~ Robertson Davies
Any
Anyone
Books
Ever
Heard
Literate
Loved
Never
Really
Suppress
Them
Wanted
Who
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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.
~ Robertson Davies
Banker
Between
Canada
Country
Desire
Extraordinary
Fears
I See
Itself
Mystical
Northern
Present
Rather
Scotch
See
Spirit
Torn
Very
Which
World
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
~ Robertson Davies
Common
Love
Occasional
Passion
Pleasures
Seek
Sense
Should
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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.
~ Robertson Davies
Art
Ashamed
Author
Belief
Boundaries
Critics
Curious
Dimensions
Every
Explore
Extend
Frequently
He
Himself
However
Human
Human Spirit
Literary
Longs
New
Should
Spirit
Suffer
Wants
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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.
~ Robertson Davies
Down
Feel
Help
Hoping
Make
May
Misery
Sometimes
Suggestion
Wonderful
Write
You
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No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
~ Robertson Davies
English
Feel
Make
People
Small
World
You
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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
~ Robertson Davies
Easy
Fake
Inner
Nothing
Vision
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Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
~ Robertson Davies
Be Happy
Expects
Fool
Happy
Only
Time
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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.
~ Robertson Davies
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Robertson Davies
Profession
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BirthDate
28 August, 1913
DeathDate
02 December, 1995
Country
Canada
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