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Robertson Davies, né le 28 août 1913 à Thamesville et mort le 2 décembre 1995 à Toronto , est un romancier, dramaturge, critique, journaliste et professeur canadien. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. août 1913 – 2. décembre 1995
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“Les coïncidences sont des calembours d'ordre spirituel.”

Citation de G.K. Chesterton
Le Manticore (Trilogie de Deptford, II)

“Dieu et le Diable désirent tous deux intervenir dans les affaires humaines; le Diable choisit toujours bien son moment.”

De Ramsay, ami calviniste d'Eisengrim.
Le monde des merveilles (Trilogie de Deptford, III)

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“Nous tenons tous à nos chaînes. Il n'y a pas d'homme libre.”

Le monde des merveilles (Trilogie de Deptford, III)

“L'amour physique, c'est comme l'aquarelle, vous savez : cela a l'air faussement facile.”

Le monde des merveilles (Trilogie de Deptford, III)

Robertson Davies: Citations en anglais

“Do they show us the future as it matures in the womb of the present?”

Robertson Davies livre A Voice from the Attic

A Voice from the Attic (1960)

“As I plodded back and forth I reflected miserably upon my own political rootlessness, in a world where politics is so important. When I am with Tories I am a violent advocate of reform; when I am with reformers I hold forth on the value of tradition and stability. When I am with communists I become a royalist — almost a Jacobite; when I am with socialists I am an advocate of free trade, private enterprise and laissez-faire.”

Robertson Davies livre The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks

The presence of a person who has strong political convictions always sends me flying off in a contrary direction. Inevitably, in the world of today, this will bring me before a firing squad sooner or later. Maybe the fascists will shoot me, and maybe the proletariat, but political contrariness will be the end of me; I feel it in my bones.
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947)

“Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.”

… What excellent advice it is, and how it was beaten into my generation of schoolboys... But one may tire of even the best advice, as one may tire of writing according to these precepts. Would we wish to be without the heraldic splendour and torchlight processions that are the sentences of Sir Thomas Browne? Would we wish to sacrifice the orotund, Latinate pronouncements of Samuel Johnson? Would we wish that Dickens had written in the style recommended by the brothers Fowler, who framed the rules I have quoted; what would then have happened to Seth Pecksniff, Wilkins Micawber, and Sairey Gamp, I ask you?
Writing (1990), he here quotes from The King's English (1906) by Henry Watson Fowler & Francis George Fowler

“To which god must I sacrifice in order to heal?”

To which of the warring serpents should I turn with the problem that now faces me?
It is easy, and tempting, to choose the god of Science. Now I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is its symbol. It is a powerful god indeed but it is what the students of ancient gods called a shape-shifter, and sometimes a trickster.
Can a Doctor Be a Humanist? (1984).

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