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Brief about Robertson Davies: By info that we know Robertson Davies was born at 1913-08-28. And also Robertson Davies is Canadian Novelist.

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

Tags: Fact, Future, Past

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

Tags: Conserving, Politics, Secondhand

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.

Tags: Society, Stupidity, Time

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

Tags: Dope, Miser, Worst

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

Tags: Die, Sick, Year

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

Tags: Call, Happen, Luck

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

Tags: Forever, Gallery, Playing

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.

Tags: Best, God, Work

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.

Tags: Art, Human, Spirit

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

Tags: Him, Lost, Wanted

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Tags: Eye, Mind, Prepared

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

Tags: Become, Survive, Terrible

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.

Tags: Mad, Wise, Woman

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

Tags: Lovable, Quiet, Wise

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Tags: Doubt, Fanaticism

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.

Tags: Age, Experience, Great

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Tags: Fool, Happy, Time

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

Tags: Large, Place, Spiritual

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

Tags: Few, Genius, Someone

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

Tags: Ideas
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