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> [I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/i-loved-the-army-as-an-institution-and-loathed-every-single-thing-it/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

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## More by Simon Raven

> [I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/i-loved-the-army-as-an-institution-and-loathed-every-single-thing-it/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

> [Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/scholarship-was-one-thing-drudgery-another-i-very-soon-concluded-that/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/i-wanted-to-look-at-the-upper-middle-class-scene-since-the-war-and-in/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

> [And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/and-so-at-the-age-of-thirty-i-had-successively-disgraced-myself-with/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

> [How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/how-can-i-go-on-with-this-please-god-let-me-win-a-football-pool/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

> [Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/nobody-minded-what-you-did-in-bed-or-what-you-said-about-god-a-very/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

> [Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/gentlemen-can-now-only-behave-as-such-or-be-tolerated-as-such-in/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

> [“In becoming the universe God abdicated. He destroyed himself as God. He turned what he had been, his true self, into nullity and thereby…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/in-becoming-the-universe-god-abdicated-he-destroyed-himself-as-god-he/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

> [... life is short and the world is wide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/life-is-short-and-the-world-is-wide/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

> [Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/art-for-art-s-sake-money-for-god-s-sake/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

> [Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/since-life-is-short-and-the-world-is-wide-the-sooner-you-start/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

> [“Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/dusk-is-the-time-when-men-whisper-of-matters-about-which-they-remain/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

> [Christ asked for everything he got.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-raven/christ-asked-for-everything-he-got/)

[Simon Raven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-raven/)

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