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Simon Raven Quotes

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: December 28, 1927 - May 12, 2001

Topics

Now Circumstances Behave Only Unreal

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Tired People Nothing Way Company

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

Respect You Differences Place Out

I did any of the normal things any redneck kid did.

Redneck Kid Normal Things Did Any

People say, write what you know, but it's really, write about what obsesses you. Write about what you're thinking about all the time.

Time People Thinking You Know Say

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

Robert A. M. Stern

Responsibility Past Greatest Our

If I could have a family and a home one night, and all of it's gone the next, that must mean that life has the capacity to change. And then I thought, 'Whoa! That means that just as change happens to me, I can cause change in my life.'

Life Family Change Home Me Night

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Life Technology Day Man Silence

You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.

Character Time Doing Trying You New

I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago.

Christopher Lee

Children Play Years Lived Who He

I spent three months with a physical therapist understanding what a stroke is. I asked, 'What is a stroke?' I didn't really know. It's okay to mimic something, but I really needed to understand the signs.

Understanding Know Three Understand

You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.

Generation You New Leverage See

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.

William Lyon Phelps

Life Enjoy Life People Enjoy Admit

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