Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Age Copy Share Image
“We’re a bundle of incompatible parts, and we make up stories about ourselves to disguise the fact. The mental unity of the… — David Lodge Identity Copy Share Image
“perhaps it will I said perhaps it will be wonderful perhaps even though it won't be like you think perhaps that won't… — David Lodge Stream of consciousness Copy Share Image
“So they stood upon the shores of Faith and felt the old dogmas and certainties ebbing away rapidly under their feet and… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism,… — David Lodge Age 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 Umor Copy Share Image
“When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become… — David Lodge Books 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 Adam 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
“Our friends started life with too many beliefs -- the penalty of a Catholic upbringing. They were weighted down with beliefs, useless… — David Lodge Faith Copy Share Image
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit. — David Lodge Desire 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
“It is, as I say, easy enough to describe Holden's style of narration; but more difficult to explain how it holds our… — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
“wandering between two worlds, one lost, the other powerless to be born.” — David Lodge Copy Share Image
It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces — David Lodge Faces Copy Share Image
“...my big depression. For six months I languished at the bottom of a deep hole, like the shaft of a waterless well,… — David Lodge Depression Copy Share Image
“I mean, mentally you brace yourself for the ending of a novel. As you're reading, you're aware of the fact that there's… — David Lodge Books 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 Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. — David Lodge Company Copy Share Image
That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at… — David Lodge Attraction 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
“When April with its sweet showers has pierced the drought of March to the root, and bathed every vein of earth with… — David Lodge Academia Copy Share Image
