Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
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Right ho, I'll marry you. That'll keep your family happy. But I won't live with you - ever.Simon Raven
I've always written for a small audience consisting of people like myself who are well-educated, worldly, skeptical and snobbish (meaning that they rank good taste over bad). And who believe that nothing and nobody is special.
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How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.
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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?
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Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
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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.
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