David Lodge

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round. ↗

— David Lodge

#life

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages. ↗

— David Lodge

#age

It's a special form of scholarly neurosis,´ said Camel. `He's no longer able to distinguish between life and literature.´ ↗

— David Lodge

#life

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

— David Lodge

#children #having #having children #life #literature

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. ↗

— David Lodge

#cathedrals #criteria #existence #justify #modern

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. ↗

— David Lodge

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