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Own Quotes by Robertson Davies
- If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops,…
- Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not…
- To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his…
- It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet one he is likely to be a fascinating monster
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