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 LodgeTo read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another
David LodgeIt's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces
David Lodge