David Lodge Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing”
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“Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.”
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“Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.”
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“It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces”
-- David Lodge
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