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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. Robertson Davies
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. Robertson Davies
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, loveable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. Robertson Davies
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. Robertson Davies
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. Robertson Davies
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason. Robertson Davies
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. Robertson Davies
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. Robertson Davies