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

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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'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

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

- 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

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

Information is the religion of the modern world.

- David Lodge

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

- 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