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Long Quotes by Robertson Davies
- Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today,…
- If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.
- 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…
- All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is…
- Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author…
- Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you…
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