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Robertson Davies
 
Date of birth: 28 August 1913
Date of death: 02 December 1995
Country Of Origin: Canada
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Novelist

Playwright

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

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" A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. "

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

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" He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. "

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

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" I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. "

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" I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. "

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" I think of an 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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" 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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" Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. "

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