What did Robertson Davies mean by: Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves. - Robertson Davies Author · Canada Copy
+ The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robertson Davies, Art, Division, Paper, 0 - Robertson Davies Author · Canada
+ Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robertson Davies, Affair, Emotional, Pleasure, 0 - Robertson Davies Author · Canada
+ When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robertson Davies, Coffee, Luck, 0 - Robertson Davies Author · Canada
+ All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robertson Davies, Children, Mother, Parenting, 0 - Robertson Davies Author · Canada
+ here are some homosexuals whom we would do well to take seriously. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robertson Davies, Homosexual, 0 - Robertson Davies Author · Canada
+ The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robertson Davies, Difficulty, Tasks, Writing, 0 - Robertson Davies Author · Canada
+ We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robertson Davies, Challenge, Mediocrity, Mistrust, 0 - Robertson Davies Author · Canada
+ Whoever declares a child to be “delicate” thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robertson Davies, Children, Crowns, Tyrants, 0 - Robertson Davies Author · Canada
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
