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• One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

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  Innocence, Mystery

  Robertson Davies (1983). “The Deptford trilogy”, Penguin Mass Market

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• Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.

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  Symphony, Trying, Bars

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• People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.

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  People, Saint, Havens

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.39, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

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  Emotional, Affair, Pleasure

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• 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 your eyes peeled.

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  Eye, Evil, Looks

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• Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

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  Life, Matter, Belief

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• The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

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  Love, Truth, Lying

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• Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

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  People, Genius, Offended

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• I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me

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  Ideas

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.

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  Quality, World

  "A Voice from the Attic". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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• 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.

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  Beauty, Achievement, Today

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

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  Business, Men, Luck

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.

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  Humor, Light, People

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• A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

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  Childhood, Belief, Spoiled

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

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  Inspirational, Careers, Single Life

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• Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

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  Art, Wine, Alcohol

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• After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.

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  Infinite, Possibility, Humans

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.35, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.

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  Legs, Four, Blanket

  1957 Love and Libel.

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• Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines - not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.

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  Lying, Book, Reality

  "Tempest-Tost". Book by Robertson Davies, Part 6, 1951.

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• Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.

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  Curiosity, Together, Cement

  Robertson Davies (1983). “High spirits”, Viking Adult

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• I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take care of itself. One sees them fussing about all sorts of lesser concerns, apparently unaware that side by side with them often in the same bed a human creature is perishing from lack of affection, of emotional malnutrition.

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  Intelligent, Emotional, Thinking

  "The Pleasures of Love". 1961.

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• On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

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  Laughing, Devil, Satanic

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

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  Book, Bed, Companion

  Interviewed by Terence M Green, recorded in J Madison Davis (ed) Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989).

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• Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

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  Heart, Broken, Important

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• 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 something that can be demanded from life, and 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.

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  Life, Happiness, Happy

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