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The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.
Robertson Davies
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Robertson Davies
Age: 82 †
Born: 1913
Born: August 28
Died: 1995
Died: December 3
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William Robertson Davies
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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
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It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing they seem to think that writing is a confidence game by means of which the author cajoles a restless, dull-witted, shallow audience into hearing his point of view. Such an attitude is base, and can only beget base prose.
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I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.
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In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.
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The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.
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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
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When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.
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When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.
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We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.
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Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at the extraordinary high level to which they'll rise if they're let alone.
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Civilization rests on two things, said Hitzig the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendidly civilized occasion be without both?
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here are some homosexuals whom we would do well to take seriously.
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The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.
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All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.
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I think of the 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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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
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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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