And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do. — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
“In becoming the universe God abdicated. He destroyed himself as God. He turned what he had been, his true self, into nullity and thereby… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better. — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
“Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.” — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
