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What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.


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GRAHAM DAVIES If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
ROBERTSON DAVIES Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all su...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinar...
ROBERTSON DAVIES The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a...
DAVE DAVIES So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably sa...
NORMAN DAVIES In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybod...
NICK DAVIES The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together ...
NICK DAVIES The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, w...
NORMAN DAVIES You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.
LYNN DAVIES The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries wher...
NORMAN DAVIES There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the...
LYNN DAVIES The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are readin...
ROBERTSON DAVIES General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the concep...
PAUL DAVIES When seniors first come here, they're apprehensive. But once they're here, they see that it's a warm...
BARBARA DAVIES The one I remember is going into London, as it was for us in Essex, on New Year's Eve in 1981. T...
ALAN DAVIES This is an important historical site which is now a leisure facility and I feel certain that there i...
BARRY DAVIES Europe's fragmentation puts the wider historical picture beyond reach.
NORMAN DAVIES