"And so, at the age of thirty, I……" — Simon Raven
"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 full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust."
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11 Quotes by Simon Raven
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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…
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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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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…
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