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Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. ↗

— Ray Davies

#corruption #crooked #hearing #keep #know

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing. ↗

— Ray Davies

#been #doing #else #everyone #hear

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others. ↗

— Ray Davies

#art student #i #like #others #student

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done. ↗

— Ray Davies

#done #every #had #i #life

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. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#dog #every #every man #fewer #mad

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#i #i do #ideas #me

I think there was a lot competition in the rock scene. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#i #i think #lot #rock #scene

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

#between #canada #country #desire #extraordinary

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#ashamed #author #belief #boundaries #critics

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

#been #before #century #lot #make