80 ordspråk av Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies föddes den 28 august 1913 och dog den 2 december 1995
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 The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up |
| A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. |
| One of the most difficult tasks for the educated and sophisticated mind is to recognize that some clichés are also important truths |
| Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. |
| 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 |
| The love of truth lies at the root of much humor |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb |
| Only a fool expects to be happy all the time. |
| Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. |
| Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. |
| The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. |
| 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 |
| Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. |
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