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Good Quotes by Robertson Davies
- In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the…
- If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and keep…
- 'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that…
- That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would…
- And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face…
- Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.
- A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find…
- If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and…
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