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Robertson Davies

"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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"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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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

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"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."

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"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."

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"I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction."

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"My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me."

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"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."

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"The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring."
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"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
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"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself."
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"What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us."
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