What a writer – beyond the 18 (!) novels there were essays, plays, short stories, and libretti.
What a writer. My own favourite is A Mixture of Frailties which lacks the darkness of, say, World of Wonders.
What a professor. Oh, wait, I’ve heard that he was a tad over-bearing and egotistic in this role.
But what a writer.
I’ll always remember him as the guy who taught me that it costs a lot to live in the past – to maintain the elegance of an earlier age.
“It costs a lot to live in the past – to maintain the elegance of an earlier age.”
Is this an epigram, aphorism or a maxim?
Barbara – After looking them all up, I’d vote for epigram (if, indeed, it expresses a truth at all.) I didn’t capture it even close to an actual quote. I’m pretty sure Davies would have said it better.