Robertson Davies

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. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#common sense #continual #love #occasional #passion

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#feel #help #hoping #i #impertinence

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#fake #inner #nothing #vision

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. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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