Simon Raven Quotes
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I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
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Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds…
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Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
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Christ asked for everything he got.
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Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.
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And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its…
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Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
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Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
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... life is short and the world is wide
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How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.
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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…
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