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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Robertson Davies
Future, Past, People
"A Voice from the Attic". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.

Robertson Davies
Past, Audience Of One, Long
Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading”, Penguin Group Canada

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

Robertson Davies
Reading, Past, Thinking
Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.

Robertson Davies
Past, Mirrors, Order
"A Voice from the Attic". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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