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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Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

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.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night.

Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past

Other-directed appears to be nothing more than a sociological term for weak-minded

For I was a collaborator with Destiny, not one who put a pistol to its head and demanded particular treasures

No people on earth can make you feel so small as the English

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