80 ordspråk av Robertson Davies

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Robertson Davies föddes den 28 augustus 1913 och dog den 2 december 1995
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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

 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.

 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.

 She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people

 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.

 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.

 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.

 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.

 The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

 The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

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

 The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

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

 The love of truth lies at the root of much humor

 The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up


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