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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

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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