There is really no such thing as a secret; everybody likes to tell, and everybody does tell.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: fifth-business
How much more complicated life is than the attainment of a Ph.D. would lead one to believe!
Robertson DaviesThe new priest in his whitish lab-coat gives you nothing at all except a constantly changing vocabulary which he -- because he usually doesn't know any Greek -- can't pronounce, and you are expected to trust him implicitly because he knows what you are too dumb to comprehend. It's the most overweening, pompous priesthood mankind has ever endured in all its recorded history, and its lack of symbol and metaphor and its zeal for abstraction drive mankind to a barren land of starved imagination.
Robertson DaviesWhat an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!
Robertson DaviesMarriage isn't just domesticity, or the continuance of the race, or institutionalized sex, or a form of property right. And it damned well isn't happiness, as that word is generally used. I think it's a way of finding your soul.
Robertson DaviesВ операта непременно трябва да има примадона – винаги сопрано, често глупава; тенор в ролята на нейния любовник; трябва да има и контраалт – съперница на сопраното, нещо като магьосница; и бас – злодеят, съперникът, онзи, който заплашва тенора… Сюжетът обаче няма да се развие без присъствието на още един, обикновено баритон – именно него наричат Петия в карето, защото той е излишният, без съответствие от другия пол. Обаче Петия е задължителен, защото именно той знае тайната на произхода на героя или се притичва на помощ на героинята, когато тя е решила, че всичко е загубено, а може дори да бъде причина за нечия смърт, ако това е част от сюжета. Без Петия в карето няма сюжет! В тази роля няма блясък, но е съдържателна, и кариерата на хората, които я изпълняват, често е по-продължителна от съдбата на славеите. Ти Петия ли си?
Robertson DaviesElsie, who had a lot of energy and no shame...she seduced me. It was not a success, from Elsie's point of view, because the orgasm for women was just coming into general popularity then, and she didn't have one.
Robertson Davies..but when one human creature dies a whole world of hope and memory and feeling dies with him. To be robbed of the dignity of a natural death is a terrible deprivation.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: death
The recognition of oneself as a part of nature, and reliance on natural things, are disappearing for hundreds of millions of people who do not know that anything is being lost.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: nature
Subtle wits like to refresh themselves with a whiff of mild indecency.
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