Robertson Davies Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: August 28, 1913 - December 2, 1995
Birthday: August 28
Death: December 2
My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the hermaphrodite and the living skeleton were interesting for the same reason as was Creatore, or the resplendent Guardsmen of the bands - because such people did not often come my way, and I hoped that they might impart some great revelation to me, some insight which would help me to a clearer understanding of the world about me.
source: "I Remember Creatore". Essay by Robertson Davies, 1948.
topic: Skeletons, Interesting, People, Deviation, Hermaphrodites
