"The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books"

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Robertson Davies

#Book Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Pastime Quotes

“The car (FT86) is not only FUN to drive, but in terms of quality and precision of handling, the car has very much surpassed any expectations I had. More easily put, if you had blind folded me and told me this was a new creation by BMW's M department, I would not even hesitate to believe you. It's that good.”
“It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a mother, being a wife seems like a game you once played or a self-help book you were overly impressed with as a teenager that on second reading is puffy with common ideas. This was one of the many things I had learned since crossing over into the middle place - that sliver of time when childhood and parenthood overlap.”

Source : Kelly Corrigan (2008). “The Middle Place”, p.37, Hachette UK
“I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover”
“If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.”

Source : Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.165, Open Road Media
“I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.”
“The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.”
“It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.”
“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

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