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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 world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is,
in fact, a return to the idealised past.
-- Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
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As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind.
The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is....
I walked on toward Ploughwright, thinking about feces.
What a lot we had found out about the prehistoric past from the study of fossilized dung of long-vanished animals....
I walked on toward Ploughwright, thinking about feces.
What a lot we had found out about the prehistoric past from the study of fossilized dung of long-vanished animals....
By 1960 work will be limited to three hours a day. -- John Langdon-Davies.
A Short History of the Future, 1936...
The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man. -- Robertson Davie
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woma
only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. -- Robertson Davie...
I cannot remember a time when I did not take it as understood that everybody has at least two, if not twenty-two, sides to him.
-- Robertson Davies from Fifth Busine...
In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them
hey worked and struggled and had lots of children....
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.
That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion....