Quotes of Simon Raven - somelinesforyou

“ . . .life is short and the world is wide. ”

- Simon Raven

“ 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 as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ”

- Simon Raven

“ How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool. ”

- Simon Raven

“ 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 as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ”

- Simon Raven

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

- 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. ”

- Simon Raven

“ 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 as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ”

- Simon Raven

“ For in a literary career there was one unfailing advantage: No degree whatever of moral or social disgrace could disqualify one from practice - and indeed a bad character, if suitably tricked out for presentation, might win one helpful publicity. ”

- Simon Raven

“ I've always written for a small audience consisting of people like myself who are well-educated, worldly, skeptical and snobbish And who believe that nothing and nobody is special. ”

- Simon Raven

“ How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool. ”

- Simon Raven

“ 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 as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ”

- Simon Raven

“ For in a literary career there was one unfailing advantage: No degree whatever of moral or social disgrace could disqualify one from practice - and indeed a bad character, if suitably tricked out for presentation, might win one helpful publicity. ”

- Simon Raven

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

- Simon Raven

“ For in a literary career there was one unfailing advantage: No degree whatever of moral or social disgrace could disqualify one from practice - and indeed a bad character, if suitably tricked out for presentation, might win one helpful publicity. ”

- Simon Raven

“ 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 as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ”

- Simon Raven

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

- Simon Raven

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

- Simon Raven

“ For in a literary career there was one unfailing advantage: No degree whatever of moral or social disgrace could disqualify one from practice - and indeed a bad character, if suitably tricked out for presentation, might win one helpful publicity. ”

- Simon Raven

“ 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 as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ”

- Simon Raven

“ I've always written for a small audience consisting of people like myself who are well-educated, worldly, skeptical and snobbish And who believe that nothing and nobody is special. ”

- Simon Raven

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

- Simon Raven

“ I've always written for a small audience consisting of people like myself who are well-educated, worldly, skeptical and snobbish And who believe that nothing and nobody is special. ”

- Simon Raven

“ 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 as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ”

- Simon Raven

“ I've always written for a small audience consisting of people like myself who are well-educated, worldly, skeptical and snobbish And who believe that nothing and nobody is special. ”

- Simon Raven

“ 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 as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ”

- 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. ”

- Simon Raven

“ 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 as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring? ”

- Simon Raven

“ I've always written for a small audience consisting of people like myself who are well-educated, worldly, skeptical and snobbish And who believe that nothing and nobody is special. ”

- Simon Raven

“ I've always written for a small audience consisting of people like myself who are well-educated, worldly, skeptical and snobbish And who believe that nothing and nobody is special. ”

- Simon Raven
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