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“Dio fece il gatto perché l'uomo potesse avere il piacere di coccolare la tigre.”

Origine: Da The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks.

“Gli scrittori amano i gatti perché sono creature tranquille, amabili e sagge, e i gatti amano gli scrittori per le stesse ragioni.”

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Origine: Citato in Alice Ki, Il gatto: se lo conosci lo educhi, Newton Compton editori, Roma, 2013, p. 158 http://books.google.it/books?id=Ncg-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT158.

“Nessun popolo al mondo ti fa sentire così piccolo quanto quello inglese.”

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“Un librettista è un facchino nel mondo dell'opera.”

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Robertson Davies: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

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Robertson Davies libro A Voice from the Attic

A Voice from the Attic (1960)

“The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.”

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The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)

“Why doesn't he throw himself on the ground, saying "You are my Soul, my Better Self, be mine or I stab myself with this pair of protractors"; then she could reply, "Nay, press me not, I am Another's". In that way they could really have some romantic fun and store up things to tell their grandchildren. No style, no breadth, that's the trouble with the modern High School set.”

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Robertson Davies libro The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks

The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)

“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.”

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Robertson Davies libro A Voice from the Attic

A Voice from the Attic (1960)

“An important aspect of Nonconformity was its cult of the Bible as the fount of all wisdom. But the Bible takes much of its colour from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.”

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Melodrama: The Silver King (1993).

“They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledge; you can't be creative in a void, or you just get a mess.”

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"The Grand Old Man of Can Lit"
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)

“What used to be called a Canadian novel was a kind of prairie frontier story, but it was phony. In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy-pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courage. Those novels would make you retch.”

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On the generic Canadian novel, in the New York Times (29 December 1988).

“Many many heartfelt thanks for your letter of September 25. Though it filled me with shame and remorse, I was grateful for the Christian impulse which moved you to stretch out a hand to me in my wretchedness. You say "We become that with which we busy our mind." Too true! Alas, too true! I recall that as a boy the school chaplain said to my class, "If you tell dirty jokes you will grow to look like a dirty joke!" This is been my hapless destiny…. Would you do me a favour? Will you send me a photograph of yourself, so that I may behold a countenance suffused with Christian love, and perhaps even repent?”

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To a woman in Manitoba, who sent a letter reproaching Davies for writing "barnyard pornography" in The Rebel Angels (1981), quoted in For Your Eye Alone : Letters 1976-1995 (1999).

“When John Ryder, for instance, writes "I utter valediction to the author of my being," he means simply that he said goodbye to his mother.”

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How to Be a Collector (1995).

“After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.”

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"Conversations with Gordon Roper".
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)

“The novels and poems which proceed from writers in the grip of this barren pessimism are of the kind which make narrow moralists fume, and use words like "decadence"; the writers rejoice, because making narrow moralists (who are usually frightened people) hop with rage is a sign that they have hit a mark, and they do not understand how poor and easy a mark it is.”

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Robertson Davies libro A Voice from the Attic

A Voice from the Attic (1960)