Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate August 28, 1913

Zodiac Virgo

Location Thamesville, Ontario

Country Canada

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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

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I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.

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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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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

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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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I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man

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I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.

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