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 Robertson Davies
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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.

Robertson Davies

 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.

Robertson Davies

 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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 Animals
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. - Robertson Davies Quotes

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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 Happiness
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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