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Robertson Davies - What's Bred in the Bone (1985)

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. I know that sounds horrible and cruel, considering what happens to a lot of people, and it can't be the whole explanation. But it's a considerable part of it.

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She was worse than a blabber; she was a hinter. It gave her pleasure to rouse curiosity and speculation about dangerous things.

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Born: August 28, 1913
Died: December 2, 1995 (aged 82)
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