I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex. — David Lodge Bears Copy Share Image
“Intensity of experience is what we're looking for, I think. We know we won't find it at home any more, but there's… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible… — David Lodge Academic Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch… — David Lodge Adventure 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
“He is well satisfied with his accommodation, which provides all modern amenities in a compact and convenient form, and leaves him the… — David Lodge Accommodation 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
“Song-Mi Lee,...her life wholly dedicated to protecting the great man against the importunities of the academic world and soothing his despair at… — David Lodge Great man Copy Share Image
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of… — 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 Belief Copy Share Image
whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. Every second, somewhere or other, a… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Niciodata n-am visat mult. Ceea ce inseamna din cate inteleg ca pur si simplu nu-mi amintesc visele, fiindca de visat visam tot… — David Lodge Amor Copy Share Image
“What was left was sex in the head, as D.H.Lawrence called it. ... Where else would the human subject have sex but… — David Lodge Desire 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
“I've been in love with you for weeks.' There's no such thing,' she says. 'It's a rhetorical device. It's a bourgeois fallacy.'… — David Lodge Discourse Copy Share Image
“The golden rule of fictional prose is that there are no rules - except the ones that each writer sets for him… — David Lodge Books 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
“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
“Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was… — David Lodge Books Copy Share Image
