Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
From Robertson Davies
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
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