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By this time I had discovered that all the gamey bits were cut out of the school texts, because I had a Shakespeare of my own; the Ontario Department of Education was hard at its impossible task of trying to educate the masses without in any permanent way inflaming their minds (Robertson Davies Quotes)
The professor who lectured on Shakespeare seemed to be entrapped in a grotesque, retrospective love affair with every one of Shakespeare's heroines. I think he even had a feeling that he could have made a respectable faculty wife out of Lady Macbeth (Robertson Davies Quotes)
Principally I played pedants, idiots, old fathers, and drunkards. As you see, I had a narrow escape from becoming a professor (Robertson Davies Quotes)
It was easier to keep myself from becoming a success as an actor. Critics were careful not to outrage my modesty by their praise, and the public scrupulously refused to debauch me with applause. I have thought about it a good deal, and my conclusion is that I was ahead of my time. Or behind it (Robertson Davies Quotes)
I don't suppose there is a country in the world where a playwright has such a tremendous field for modesty as Canada (Robertson Davies Quotes)
People marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is (Robertson Davies Quotes)
The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order (Robertson Davies Quotes)
For them, in a time when the individual has lost significance (despite loud assertions to the contrary), an informed, rational, and intellectually adventurous individuality must take precedence over all else. In their seeming disunion lies their real strength (Robertson Davies Quotes)
Books of the avant-garde either establish themselves as books of lasting value, or they slip from the rear guard into the discard, and I believe the writers I mentioned have not proven trivial (Robertson Davies Quotes)
This is, after all, a book about reading, and the kind of reader I am addressing does not care primarily about being in fashion (Robertson Davies Quotes)
Sometimes for us in Canada it seems as though the United States and the United Kingdom were cup and saucer, and Canada the spoon, for we are in and out of both with the greatest freedom, and we are given most recognition when we are most a nuisance (Robertson Davies Quotes)
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books (Robertson Davies Quotes)
Foolish people laugh at those readers a century ago who wept over the novels of dickens. Is it a sign of superior intellect to read anything and everything unmoved, in a grey, unfeeling limbo? (Robertson Davies Quotes)
If you can, and if you are a playgoer and a filmgoer, you should be able to find voices for all the characters in the books you read (Robertson Davies Quotes)
The reader cannot create; that has been done for him by the author. The reader can only interpret, giving the author a fair chance to make his impression (Robertson Davies Quotes)
It is not my intention to denounce modern education. If it is bad, it may be said that all education is bad which is not self-education, and quite a lot of self-education is going on today - some of it in our schools, under the very noses of the teachers! (Robertson Davies Quotes)
Not all readers are prepared, at all times, to make independent judgments. But the failure of modern education to equip them to do so even when they have the inclination creates a serious gap in modern culture (Robertson Davies Quotes)
Our age has robbed millions of the simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to the simplicity of wisdom (Robertson Davies Quotes)
Nobody can find fault with legitimate ambition, but when the wealth of the spiritual and intellectual life is reduced to a formula for overcoming sales resistance, we protest (Robertson Davies Quotes)
Quaint though this attitude seems now, it was unquestionably the prevalent one in the nineteenth century, and it would be over-bold to say that it will never return to favour, for the range of human folly is infinite (Robertson Davies Quotes)
The modern writer is too often a theseus so enamored of the grotesque appearance and strange cavortings of the Minotaur that he has decided to make his permanent abode in the Labyrinth, and to accept the Minotaur's laws as his own (Robertson Davies Quotes)
Perhaps the most striking difference between Malory's Morte d'Arthur and Tennyson's Idylls of the King is that Malory's women are all human beings, and that Tennyson's are, in greater or less degree, prizes for good conduct (Robertson Davies Quotes)
It is not as though do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law was a precept from which splendid fiction could not be drawn; it is rather that what these small-time rebels choose to do is so trivial, so cheap, and in the end, so dreary (Robertson Davies Quotes)
Art lies in understanding some part of the dark forces and bringing them under the direction of reason (Robertson Davies Quotes)
The past is only partly irrecoverable. The clerisy should accord it at least as much courtesy as they offer to the future (Robertson Davies Quotes)
That is all there is to it. No doubts, no discussion of earlier affairs, no to-ing and fro-ing, no physical experiment beyond a kiss, none of the complex voodoo which is thought necessary in even the most perfunctory modern novel to clap two ninnies together (Robertson Davies Quotes)
When a man has become a great figure in society as a physician, we must not be surprised if he regards the laws of society as the laws of nature - but we need not respect him for it (Robertson Davies Quotes)
One receives the impression from his writings that he made it his plan to read any book whatever that no one else can bear to read (Robertson Davies Quotes)
Complementary to his is Thurber's remark that humour is a kind of emotional chaos, told about quietly and calmly in retrospect. Emotional chaos is not pleasant; distillation of that chaos afterward may perhaps be pleasant in some of its aspects, and undoubtedly gives pleasure to others (Robertson Davies Quotes)
But the temptation to wallow and disport myself in the purple prose of the doting collector is strong, and it will need all my vigilance to resist it (Robertson Davies Quotes)