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 years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of… — 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
