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Quotes from How to Be a Collector — Robertson Davies

1913–1995 Canada

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In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.

How to Be a Collector (1995)

When John Ryder, for instance, writes "I utter valediction to the author of my being," he means simply that he said goodbye to his mother.

How to Be a Collector (1995)

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