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Simon Raven Biography

Simon Arthur Noël Raven (28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001) was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist and raconteur who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and offence. His obituary in The Guardian noted that, "he combined elements of Flashman, Waugh's Captain Grimes and the Earl of Rochester", and that he reminded Noel Annan, his Cambridge tutor, of the young Guy Burgess.

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Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

Attitude, Bed, Said, Civilized, 1948

. . . life is short and the world is wide

Travel, Life Is Short, World, Life, Wide

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 of very, very, very boring books.

Book, Boring, Concluded, Make, Notes

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

Art, Money, Sake

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.

Patience, Resources, Skill, Skills, Thirty, Trust

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

Army, Institution, Institutions, Loathed, Single

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Behave, Circumstances, Gentleman, Gentlemen, Tolerated

. . . dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

Men, Light, Matter, Dusk, Silent

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

Travel, Life Is Short, World, Wide, Sooner, Short

Christ asked for everything he got.

Asked, Christ, Everything