Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the mutual admiration between authors and cats, emphasizing their shared qualities of quietness and wisdom.
Robertson Davies suggests a unique bond between authors and cats, implying that both possess a certain quiet charm and intelligence that draws them to each other. It indicates that authors appreciate cats for their serene presence and thoughtful nature, while cats, in turn, are drawn to the introspective and creative spirit of authors, creating a harmonious relationship based on these traits.
In practice
During a speech at a literary festival, one could use this quote to illustrate the connection between creativity and companionship.
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.
This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.
Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality.
The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless.
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.
Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.
It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.
I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?
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