Andrew Davidson Quotes

• If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches.

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• It doesn’t matter how fast you move, if you never go anywhere.

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• Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

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• All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn’t really belong to either of them.

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• That kind of love was a thing to be snatched up and crushed in the jaws of real life.

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• Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.

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• Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

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• The problem with people like us is that we don’t die properly.

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• Everyone’s past, I try to rationalize, is nothing more than the collection of memories they choose to remember.

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• Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

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• That which is painful sharpens one’s love.

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  Topics in Love

• You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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  Topics in Life, Wisdom

• Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

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• Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

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• Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

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• Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

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• Didn’t anyone ever tell you that the mouth is the front gate of all misfortune?

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• If you listen to the wind very carefully, you’ll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

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  Topics in Love

Andrew Davidson (18)

Birth:	12th April, 1969
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Novelist, Teacher

About

Andrew Davidson is a Canadian novelist. He has a B.A. in English literature from the University of British Columbia, and worked as a teacher in Japan before returning to Canada. He has so far published just one novel, The Gargoyle, a psychological thriller about love, religion, mental illness and medieval history.

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