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I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i. e. , more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

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Robertson Davies

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.

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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

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We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

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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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