Simon Raven Quotes

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

  Simon Raven

  Travel, Life Is Short, World

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• ... life is short and the world is wide

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  Travel, Life Is Short, World

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• 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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  Book, Boring, Notes

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• 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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  Trust, Patience, Skills

  Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”

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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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  Men, Light, Matter

  Simon Raven (2001). “Doctors Wear Scarlet”, p.112, House of Stratus

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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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  Army, Institutions

  Simon Raven (1963). “Boys Will be Boys”

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

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  Art, Money, Sake

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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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  Attitude, Bed, Said

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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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  Gentleman, Circumstances, Behave

  Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”

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• Christ asked for everything he got.

  Simon Raven

  Christ

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