Canadian - Novelist | August 28, 1913 - December 2, 1995
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
Robertson Davies
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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
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Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
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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.
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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
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No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
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