Simon Raven Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Simon Raven
Christ asked for everything he got. — Simon Raven
Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better. — 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
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. — 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. — Simon Raven
How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool. — Simon Raven
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. — Simon Raven
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake. — Simon Raven
In becoming the universe God abdicated. He destroyed himself as God. He turned what he had been, his true self, into nullity and thereby forfeited the Godlike qualities which pertained to him. The universe which he has become is also his grave. He has no control in it or over it. God, as God, is dead. — Simon Raven
Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun. — 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
Life is short and the world is wide — Simon Raven
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do. — Simon Raven