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There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

— Geoff Dyer

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.

— Samantha Shannon

Oxford is a funny place, as it is a mixture of town and gown. You have the students at the main university and at Oxford Brookes, but there is also a big working-class community.

— Kevin Whately

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

— Evelyn Waugh

Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.

— Kevin Whately

I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.

— Tariq Ali

Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.

— Chelsea Clinton

Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.

— Geoff Dyer

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

— E. M. Forster

✗Opposing Perspectives

There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.

— Mark Haddon

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

— William Butler Yeats