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List of David Lodge Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 21 inspiring quotes by David Lodge.

About David Lodge

  • Born: January 28, 1935
  • Occupation: Author
    • Walt whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
    Ends Company Walt
    Jogging, i believe they call it. it seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting americans these days. a form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the middle ages.
    Believe Epidemics Age
    Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. the natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. but this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.
    Lyric Poetry Analysis Literature
    It was adam appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about
    Sleep Thinking Awakening
    Four times, under our educational rules, the human pack is shuffled and cut - at eleven-plus, sixteen-plus, eighteen-plus and twenty-plus - and happy is he who comes top of the deck on each occasion, but especially the last. this is called finals, the very name of which implies that nothing of importance can happen after it.
    Educational Cutting Names
    Whhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! the scream of jet engines rises to a crescendo on the runways of the world. every second, somewhere or other, a plane touches down, with a puff of smoke from scorched tyre rubber, or rises in the air, leaving a smear of black fumes dissolving in its wake. from space, the earth might look to a fanciful eye like a huge carousel, with planes instead of horses spinning round its circumference, up and down, up and down. whhheeeeeeeeeee!
    Horse Eye Space
    Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.
    Desire Habit
    I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex
    Sports Sex Real
    Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.
    Communication Creativity Degrees
    That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. write a paper and see the world! i'm jane austen - fly me!
    Writing Play World
    To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another
    Curiosity Desire Surrender
    Morris read through the letter. was it a shade too fulsome? no, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
    Academic Life Law Peers
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