"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."

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Source : 'Changing Places' (1975) ch. 1

David Lodge

#Educational Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Names Quotes

“No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury.”
“Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.”

Source : Ain't It Cool News interview, aintitcool.com, July 17, 2003.
“Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.”
“Revenge is an infection of the spirit.”
“The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information.”
“What a writer brings to any story is an attitude”
“For once in your life, here's your miracle, stand up and fight.”

Source : Song: This Is It, Album: Keep the Fire
“All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.”

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