“It would be nice to be unfailingly, perpetually, remorselessly funny, day in and day out, year in and year out until somebody murdered you, now wouldn't it?”

—  Robertson Davies , book The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks

The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)

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