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Robert Ardrey Quotes

1908–1980 United States

Robert Ardrey (b. 16 October 1908 in Chicago, Illinois; d. 14 January 1980 in Kalk Bay, South Africa) was a writer, anthropologist, playwright and screenwriter.

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There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

A skepticism concerning what one beholds - whether in the arts, in the sciences, or in the deeply etched channels of fashionable response - contains a force essential to the survival of civilized man.

Plays of Three Decades: Thunder Rock / Jeb / Shadow of Heroes (1968)

Human war ... has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.

Buying the Christmas tree. ... Why can't they make Christmas presents to fit the wrapping paper? BEN. ... Mr. Hertzog and his wife are checking up on an old economic theory that on Christmas Eve you can buy any tree in town for a dollar.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Ardrey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.