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80 ordspråk av Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies föddes den 28 august 1913 och dog den 2 december 1995
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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.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

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

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

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground -- not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

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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