Robertson Davies Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: August 28, 1913 - December 2, 1995
Birthday: August 28
Death: December 2
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines - not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.
source: "Tempest-Tost". Book by Robertson Davies, Part 6, 1951.
topic: Lying, Book, Reality, Concubines
