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«I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.»
«Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.»
«The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.»
«The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.»
«The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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instructive, psychological, psychological moment
«The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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World
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idealised, notion, Return to, satisfactory
«It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet one he is likely to be a fascinating monster»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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Heroism
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fascinating, Hero of, monster
«Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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Art
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brandies, brandy, distill, distilling, distills
«She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people»
«There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.»
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