David Lodge Quotes
- Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.
- Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.
- It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces
- to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from…
- Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
- I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex.
- Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
- Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.