Quotes about Robertson Davies

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

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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

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

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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...

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Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of...

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

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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact,...

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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said,...

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

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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence...

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