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Simon Raven [1927-2001] English

Rank: 106
Novelist

Simon Arthur Noël Raven was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist and raconteur who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and offence.

Age, Attitude, Money, Patience, Trust

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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.	Age, Patience, Trust	101
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.		102
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.		103
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.	Money	104
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?		105
How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.		106
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.		107
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.	Attitude	108

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