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Robertson Davies Quotes & Sayings
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72 entries tagged including 45 subtopics.
Last updated Mar 2024
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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
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One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.
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There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive
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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
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The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.
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The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.
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The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.
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Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past
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All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages
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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
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Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
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I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
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It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet one he is likely to be a fascinating monster
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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
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Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
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Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
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