David Lodge is a British author and literary critic known for his satirical works. His novel Changing Places, published in 1975, explores the theme of academic exchange between the United States and the United Kingdom. The book was well-received and helped establish Lodge as a prominent voice in contemporary literature.
Change is not made without inconvenience.
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Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
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A meeting is an event where minutes are kept and hours are lost.
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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
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You can’t understand anything in terms of anything else, everything is just what it is.
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The true function of art is to edit nature and to make it coherent and beautiful.
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Love is an endless act of forgiveness.
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