"He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities."

-- Robertson Davies

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“Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.”
“I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.”
“The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.”
“One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.”
“Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!”
“My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.”
“On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.”
“In the end, we'll all become stories.”

Source : "Moral Disorder". Book by Margaret Atwood, September 4, 2006.

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