To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
“Cica in fiecare grasan se afla cate-un slabanog care se lupta sa iasa la lumina, iar eu unul ii aud strigatele inabusite… — David Lodge Amor Copy Share Image
“Intensity of experience is what we're looking for, I think. We know we won't find it at home any more, but there's… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible… — David Lodge Academic Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch… — David Lodge Adventure Copy Share Image
“What are we all looking for? Happiness? One knows that doesn't last. Distraction, perhaps distraction from the ugly facts: that there is… — David Lodge Death Copy Share Image
“Skaz is a rather appealing Russian word (suggesting "jazz" and "scat", as in "scat-singing", to the English ear) used to designate a… — David Lodge Russian Copy Share Image
“It was said that the view through the open window above the urinal, straight across the Bay to the Silver Span, was… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“For some days, now, the termperature had wavered between freezing and thawing and it was difficult to tell whether the sediment thickening… — David Lodge Flower Copy Share Image
“J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers,… — David Lodge New yorkers Copy Share Image
Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient… — David Lodge Around the world Copy Share Image
Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action… — David Lodge Action Copy Share Image
“What do we mean - it is a common term of praise - when we say that a book is "original"? Not,… — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
“I could never feel like that about any public issue. Sometimes I wish I could. For me, if I'm honest, politics is… — David Lodge Important things Copy Share Image
“As is perhaps obvious, Morris Zapp had no great esteem for his fellow-labourers in the vineyards of literature. They seemed to him… — David Lodge Academia Copy Share Image
“All I'm saying is that there is a generation gap, and I think it revolves around this public/private thing. Our generation --… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the… — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
