“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” -- David Lodge
#Curiosity #Desire #Trying
“Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.” -- David Lodge
#Should #Backwards
“Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.” -- David Lodge
#Desire #Habit
“It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces” -- David Lodge
#Faces #Scene #These Days
