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

Robertson Davies

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William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Davies was the founding...

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