The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Robertson Davies in A Voice from the Attic (1960)
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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
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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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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
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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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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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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
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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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Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
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