79 ordspråk av Robertson Davies

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Robertson Davies föddes den August 28th 1913 och dog den 2 December 1995
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 The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

 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

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

 The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

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

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

 The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

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

 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

 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.

 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.

 To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

 Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

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


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