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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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
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| Birth: | 28th August, 1913 |
| Death: | 2nd December, 1995 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Profession: | Critic, Journalist, Novelist, Professor, Playwriter |
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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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