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Quotation by Robertson Davies
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Robertson Davies (24)Additional Sources
"A Chat with a Great Reader" Saturday Night (Toronto, Sept. 11, 1954)"Dangerous Jewels" Toronto Daily Star (Oct. 1, 1960)"Drama vs. Theater" A Voice from the Attic, Knopf (1960)"Dylan Thomas and Hector Berlioz" Saturday Night (Canada, June 9, 1956)Haiku and Englyn Toronto Daily Star (April 4, 1959)Related Subjects
love (8) life (8) money (7) marriage (6) contentment (6) joy (5) pleasures (5) childhood (4) youth (4) misery (4)
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Robertson Davies (b. 1913), Canadian novelist, journalist. repr. In The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies (1990). "The Table Talk of Robertson Davies," Maclean's (Toronto, September 1972).
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