The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
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Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail.Robertson Davies
Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.
Robertson Davies
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.
Robertson Davies
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
Robertson Davies
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it
Robertson Davies
There are times when I think that the reading that I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive.
Robertson Davies
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