The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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Birth: | 28th August, 1913 |
Death: | 2nd December, 1995 |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Profession: | Critic, Journalist, Novelist, Professor, Playwriter |
William Robertson Davies 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 is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself and to have detested.
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