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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 Quotes

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.

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 Quotes

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.

English Novelist

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 Quotes

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?

Class English Novelist

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

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

Army English Novelist

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

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

Circumstances English Novelist

Whereas the gentleman always seeks to deserve his position, the aristocrat, disdainful and insouciant, is quite happy just to exploit it. - Simon Raven Quotes

Whereas the gentleman always seeks to deserve his position, the aristocrat, disdainful and insouciant, is quite happy just to exploit it.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake. - Simon Raven Quotes

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

Art English Novelist

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 Quotes

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.

Age And Aging English Novelist

How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool. - Simon Raven Quotes

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

English Novelist Football

I've always written for a small audience consisting of people like myself who are well-educated, worldly, skeptical and snobbish (meaning that they rank good taste over bad). And who believe that nothing and nobody is special. - Simon Raven Quotes

I've always written for a small audience consisting of people like myself who are well-educated, worldly, skeptical and snobbish (meaning that they rank good taste over bad). And who believe that nothing and nobody is special.

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