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Simon Raven
English
Novelist
Born:
Dec 28
,
1927
Died:
May 12
,
2001
Age
Attitude
Every Single Thing
God
Me
Thing
Related authors:
Aldous Huxley
Charles Dickens
E. M. Forster
J. R. R. Tolkien
Thomas Hardy
William Golding
William Makepeace Thackeray
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
Simon Raven
Me
Army
Single
Every
Institution
Single Thing
Loved
Required
Thing
Every Single Thing
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
War
Class
Man
Age
Generation
Early Years
Ought
Our
Spent
Members
Scene
Had
Part
Since
Particular
Look
How
Were
Years
Privileged
Common
Wanted
Common Man
Early
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
Simon Raven
Attitude
God
You
Minded
About
Civilized
Nobody
Said
Bed
Very
Did
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
Alone
Me
Nothing
Books
Hundreds
Would
One Thing
Boring
Scholarship
Soon
Induce
Drudgery
Make
Read
Another
Concluded
Very
Notes
Thing
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