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Robertson Davies

"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."

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"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."

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"The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing who visits the White House and adhere to a policy of openness and transparency."

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"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

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"People come and go in our life but memories stays for ever."

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"People don't commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can't find any lights of hope."

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"Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world."

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