The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless.
Robertson DaviesNo action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so?
Robertson DaviesThere is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.
Robertson DaviesGeordie wrote a letter to Mr. Webster in which the shrieking figure of Apology was hounded through a labyrinth of agonized syntax.
Robertson DaviesLife itself is too great a miracle for us to make so much fuss about potty little reversals of what we pompously assume to be the natural order.
Robertson DaviesWhy do people all over the world, and at all times, want marvels that defy all verifiable facts? And are the marvels brought into being by their desire or is their desire an assurance rising from some deep knowledge, not to be directly experienced and questioned, that the marvelous is indeed an aspect of the real?
Robertson DaviesThere is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Robertson DaviesLove affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.
Robertson DaviesStichwörter: love relationships dating-advice
Having me in the dining-room was almost the equivalent of having a Raeburn on the walls; I was classy, I was heavily varnished, and I offended nobody.
Robertson DaviesMoney, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.
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