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I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.


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ROBERTSON DAVIES Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles l...
NORMAN DAVIES Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a y...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
SAMUEL DAVIES Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
ROBERTSON DAVIES A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
ROBERTSON DAVIES You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
ROBERTSON DAVIES I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the ideal...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest sur...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Wisdom is a variable possession. Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog, fewer when pursued by ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which...
ROBERTSON DAVIES It is better to have loved and lost, than to have paid for it and not liked it at all.
GRAHAM DAVIES