My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: first-sentence
I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: personality bastard
One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: mystery
Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.
Robertson DaviesThe people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.
Robertson DaviesI am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: wisdom fate life-and-death
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson DaviesThis is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.
Robertson DaviesA happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson DaviesTo ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.
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