Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

Every decoding is another encoding.

- David Lodge

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

- David Lodge

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

- David Lodge

Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect…

- David Lodge

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

- David Lodge

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

- David Lodge

Information is the religion of the modern world.

- David Lodge

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…

- David Lodge

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