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«Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.»
«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.»
«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»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Books,
Friends,
People
| Keywords:
comprehending, Great Books
«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.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
accordion, compassed, contract, decreasing, disposing, gaseous, inordinate, suggests, warmly
«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.»
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