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Robertson Davies

"You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery."

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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

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"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

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"They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."

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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."

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"You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect."

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"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."

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"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."

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"They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact."

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"I always want to write something better than the last book."

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"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
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"Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt."
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"Only a fool expects to be happy all the time."
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"No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English."
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"A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life."
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"May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery."
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"I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them."
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"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
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"A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera."
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"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."
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