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Simon Raven has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of…
— Jim Trelease
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To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those…
— Richard Baxter
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