Quotes by Robertson Davies

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit...

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

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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

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

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

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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors...

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

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

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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...

#Robertson Davies