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Robertson Davies Quotes & Sayings
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72 entries tagged including 45 subtopics.
Last updated May 2024
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I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
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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 people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities
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Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
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He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
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I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs
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The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending
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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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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.
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The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the fully comprehensible is not worth comprehending.
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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
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The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books.
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