Robertson Davies Quotes - Page 10

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• I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.

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  Wise, Thinking, Trying

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.66, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

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  Political, Politics, Conservatism

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• Happiness is a by-product. It is not a primary product of life. It is a thing which you suddenly realize you have because you're so delighted to be doing something which perhaps has nothing whatever to do with happiness.

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  Realizing, Delighted, Primaries

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.179, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.

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  Art, People, Argument

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Cunning Man”, Penguin Group USA

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• I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.

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  Love, Moving, Book

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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• One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

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  Summer, Teacher, School

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• We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Grandparent

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind.

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  Strong, Party, Passion

  "The Pleasures of Love". Book by Robertson Davies, 1961.

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• Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

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  Spirit, Clarity, Characteristics

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Cunning Man”, Penguin Group USA

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