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I'm eccentric, what else? I don't know, I've got two people telling me what to say.

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Robertson Davies

The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

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To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.

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