Robertson Davies Messages

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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb.

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb.

Ah that blessed degree that stamps us for life as creatures of guaranteed intellectual worth.

Ah that blessed degree that stamps us for life as creatures of guaranteed intellectual worth.

As I once said of George Bernard Shaw, he bloomed at twenty, but nobody smelled him till he was forty.

As I once said of George Bernard Shaw, he bloomed at twenty, but nobody smelled him till he was forty.

If you don’t hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you’ll get.

If you don’t hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you’ll get.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground—not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground—not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

Happiness is always a by-product.  It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

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