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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. - Robertson Davies Quotes

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

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Canadian Novelist Luck

I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat. - Robertson Davies Quotes

I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat.

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Writers And Writing

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. - Robertson Davies Quotes

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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Achievement Canadian Novelist

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. - Robertson Davies Quotes

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

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Canada Canadian Novelist

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people - Robertson Davies Quotes

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people

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Class

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year. - Robertson Davies Quotes

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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Canadian Novelist

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons - Robertson Davies Quotes

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

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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. - Robertson Davies Quotes

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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Canadian Novelist Doctrine

Other-directed appears to be nothing more than a sociological term for weak-minded - Robertson Davies Quotes

Other-directed appears to be nothing more than a sociological term for weak-minded

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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 Quotes

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.

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Age And Aging Canadian Novelist

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. - Robertson Davies Quotes

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

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Books And Reading Canadian Novelist

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. - Robertson Davies Quotes

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

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Canadian Novelist Doubt

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 Quotes

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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Art Canadian Novelist

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 Quotes

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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Canadian Novelist Pornography

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 Quotes

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.

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Canadian Novelist

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs - Robertson Davies Quotes

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs

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The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old. - Robertson Davies Quotes

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

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Hope

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual. - Robertson Davies Quotes

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

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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 Quotes

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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Canadian Novelist

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. - Robertson Davies Quotes

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery. - Robertson Davies Quotes

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

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Canadian Novelist

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth - Robertson Davies Quotes

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth

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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. - Robertson Davies Quotes

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

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Art Canadian Novelist

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. - Robertson Davies Quotes

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

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Canadian Novelist Irreverence

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time. - Robertson Davies Quotes

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

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Canadian Novelist Fools And Foolishness

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up - Robertson Davies Quotes

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up

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Love

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor - Robertson Davies Quotes

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor

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One of the most difficult tasks for the educated and sophisticated mind is to recognize that some clichÃÂ©s are also important truths - Robertson Davies Quotes

One of the most difficult tasks for the educated and sophisticated mind is to recognize that some clichÃÂ©s are also important truths

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Mind

The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities - Robertson Davies Quotes

The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities

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Fear

Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position. - Robertson Davies Quotes

Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

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Art

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 Quotes

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.

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Canadian Novelist Man

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. - Robertson Davies Quotes

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

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Canadian Novelist Life

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. - Robertson Davies Quotes

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.

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Wives

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages - Robertson Davies Quotes

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages

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Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb - Robertson Davies Quotes

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

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Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world - Robertson Davies Quotes

Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world

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Life

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. - Robertson Davies Quotes

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

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Conservatives Men

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard. - Robertson Davies Quotes

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

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Conviction Quotations

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. - Robertson Davies Quotes

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

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Canadian Novelist Circumstances

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me. - Robertson Davies Quotes

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

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Canadian Novelist Ideas

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. - Robertson Davies Quotes

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

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Canadian Novelist Genius

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man. - Robertson Davies Quotes

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

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Man

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. - Robertson Davies Quotes

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

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Canadian Novelist

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. - Robertson Davies Quotes

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

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Books And Reading Canadian Novelist

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. - Robertson Davies Quotes

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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Canadian Novelist Future

It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet one he is likely to be a fascinating monster - Robertson Davies Quotes

It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet one he is likely to be a fascinating monster

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Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it - Robertson Davies Quotes

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision. - Robertson Davies Quotes

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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Canadian Novelist Vision

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books. - Robertson Davies Quotes

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books.

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