Quote by Robertson Davies
He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and sole

He types his labored column — weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. – Robertson Davies

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. – Robertson Davies

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I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read. – Robertson Davies

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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. – Robertson Davies

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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. – Jean De La Fontaine

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It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. – Georgie Anne Geyer

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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. – Otto von Bismarck

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We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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