"Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books."

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Simon Raven

#Book Quotes #Boring Quotes #Notes Quotes

“Design is art that people use,”
“Cease, cows, life is short.”
“No matter how strong our resolve, we eventually find ourselves enslaved by the compulsive preference for one particular woman. Youâ€™ve been caught, my friend. You may as well reconcile yourself to it.â€ Nick did not bother trying to deny it. â€œI was going to be so much smarter than you,â€ he muttered. Sir Ross grinned. â€œI prefer to think that intelligence has nothing to do with it. For if a manâ€™s intellect is measured by his ability to remain untouched by love, I would be the greatest idiot alive.”
“I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United.”
“The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.”
“It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term â€œfeminism,â€ to focus on the fact that to be â€œfeministâ€ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.”
“Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.”
“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”

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