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Robertson Davies Quotes

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Robertson Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Spiritual You Place Canada Where

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

Alone Hell Why Leave Everybody Else

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.

Jennifer Aniston

Good God Pain Fashion Never Same

I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

Love Reading Think Way Informed Who

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.

People Rest Numbers Young Poor Sure

In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.

Sexy Early Selling Healthy Everyone

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

Love Myself Seen Going Just Like

I don't know why, but there's something about YouTube that just makes it so awesome. You can go on there and find anything. There are actually really talented people on YouTube.

People You Find Go Know Why

I do love horses, but I'd rather be on motorcycles.

Love Horses Rather Motorcycles

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

Life People Safety Edge Living Hard

I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.

Love Generation New Whole Would

Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.

Football People Brain Game Think

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

Life Teacher Simple Mom Legal Lived

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