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“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.”

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David Lodge kniha The British Museum Is Falling Down

The British Museum Is Falling Down ([1965] 1983), ch. 4, p. 56. ISBN 0140062149

“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!”

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David Lodge

Part IV, ch. 1, p. 231.
Small World (1984)

“Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.”

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David Lodge

Part II, ch. 2, p. 141.
Small World (1984)

“I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting – the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.”

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David Lodge

Part II, ch. 2, p. 118.
Small World (1984)

“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.”

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David Lodge kniha Changing Places

Changing Places ([1975] 1978), ch. 1, p. 16. ISBN 0140046569

“Looking around at the faces of his colleagues in the Senior Common Room he felt reassured: not a Lineament of Gratified Desire to be seen.”

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David Lodge kniha Changing Places

Changing Places ([1975] 1978), ch. 1, p. 27.

“I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.”

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David Lodge

Part IV, ch. 1, p. 245.
Small World (1984)

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