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Way 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,…
- 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,…
- Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I…
- The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
- If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage…
- It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way
- Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not…
- We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory…
- The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole…
- 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…
- 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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