Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let … - Simon Raven

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Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

Simon Raven

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.

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. . . life is short and the world is wide

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

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

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