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"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
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But where some is, there reading makes it more.
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We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.
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Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.
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I do not trust any advice which is given in bad prose.
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Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.
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If you can, and if you are a playgoer and a filmgoer, you should be able to find voices fo...
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If you are an intellectual, your best course is to relax and enjoy it.
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People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.
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If you attack stupidity, you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and ...
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As the cat is, above all animals, the writer's pet, I suppose I should have written someth...
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When a man has become a great figure in society as a physician, we must not be surprised i...
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Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes...
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A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.
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You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your lang...
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One might think, to hear some people talk, that this had been a particularly fine summer. ...
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Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a fa...
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The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime bu...
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After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.
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Any enjoyment or profit we get from life, we get Now; to kill Now is to abridge our own li...
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It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima ...
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