Canadian - Novelist | August 28, 1913 - December 2, 1995
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.
Robertson Davies
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
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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.
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The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
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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.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
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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.
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
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