David Lodge Quotes

• 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

  David Lodge (2012). “Small World”, p.27, Random House

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

  David Lodge

  Age, Modern, Cathedrals

  David Lodge (1990). “Nice Work”, Penguin Group USA

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• Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

  David Lodge

  Should, Backwards

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.168, Penguin

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

  David Lodge

  Art, Men, Dying

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.433, Penguin

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• Every decoding is another encoding.

  David Lodge

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.238, Penguin

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• Information is the religion of the modern world.

  David Lodge

  World, Information, Modern

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.390, Penguin

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• 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.

  David Lodge

  Intellectual, Branches, Lasts

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.321, Penguin

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• It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

  David Lodge

  Faces, Scene, These Days

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.275, Penguin

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• To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another

  David Lodge

  Curiosity, Desire, Surrender

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.240, Penguin

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• La lengua es la red que mantiene atrapado el pensamiento dentro de una cultura determinada. Pero si uno pudiera golpear la pelota con la fuerza suficiente, con la sincronización perfecta, tal vez atravesaría la red, seguiría su curso, nunca caería a tierra, sino que entraría en órbita alrededor del mundo.

  David Lodge

  Fall, Break Through, Perfect

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.342, Penguin

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• Morris leyó la carta. ¿Era un poco excesiva? No, ésa era otra ley de la vida académica: es imposible ser excesivamente halagador con los iguales.

  David Lodge

  Academic Life, Law, Peers

  1984 Small World, pt.3, ch.1.

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• 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!

  David Lodge

  Writing, Play, World

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.420, Penguin

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• 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

  Believe, Epidemics, Age

  David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Harvill Secker

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• I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex

  David Lodge

  Sports, Sex, Real

  David Lodge (1995). “Therapy: a novel”, Viking Pr

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• Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit.

  David Lodge

  Desire, Habit

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.286, Penguin

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• Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.

  David Lodge

  Communication, Creativity, Degrees

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• It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

  David Lodge

  Sleep, Thinking, Awakening

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• ¡whhheeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! El chillido de los motores a reacción va in crescendo en las pistas de todo el mundo. Cada segundo, en un lugar u otro, un avión aterriza, con una bocanada de humo procedente de la goma chamuscada de los neumáticos, o se eleva en el aire, dejando a su paso una mancha de humos negros que se disuelven. Desde el espacio, la Tierra podría parecer a un ojo fantasioso un enorme carrusel, con aviones en lugar de caballos girando alrededor de su circunferencia, arriba y abajo, arriba y abajo. ¡Whhheeeeeeeeeee!

  David Lodge

  Horse, Eye, Space

  David Lodge (1984). “Small world: an academic romance”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• 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.

  David Lodge

  Educational, Cutting, Names

  'Changing Places' (1975) ch. 1

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• La paráfrasis, en el sentido de resumen, es tan indispensable para el crítico de novelas como el análisis minucioso lo es para el crítico de poesía lírica. La deducción natural es que las novelas son parafraseables y los poemas no. Pero se trata de una deducción falsa, porque el análisis minucioso es en sí mismo una forma encubierta de paráfrasis.

  David Lodge

  Lyric Poetry, Analysis, Literature

  David Lodge (2002). “Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel”, p.37, Psychology Press

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• Walt Whitmanel que puso de punta a punta palabras nunca antes vistas en compañía fuera de un diccionario.

  David Lodge

  Ends, Company, Walt

  'Changing Places' (1975) ch. 5

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