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Robertson Davies Quotes

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Robertson Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: August 28, 1913 - December 2, 1995

Topics

Age Great Moment Experience Reading

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

School High School Doing Attention

When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'

John Henrik Clarke

Friend Teacher Day School Mind Me

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Secrets Herself Entrusted Confided

My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.

Life Story Whole Straight Mythical

I don't think it's right that there's one set of rules for one individual and another set of rules and laws for another individual. That's not the way the world should work.

Work World Think Rules Way Right

My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.

Go Because Heavy Favorite Chaotic

Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.

Why Understand Mass Physicists

It's about the learning, because obviously I learn more when I fail than when I win.

Learning Win Learn More Fail Than

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Society Revolution Moral Abandonment

On '24,' you don't have time to emote and deal with stuff, because stuff just keeps happening. Every other minute, there's something crazy that's happening that's threatening this country.

Time Crazy You Country Something

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Experience Value Seeing Much Wisely

The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the 'intellectuals.'

Murray Rothbard

Good Government Wise People Better

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