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Malcolm Bradbury

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“It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With sociology one can do anything and call it work.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well," said Dr Jochum, "you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[A]nd the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was but a grain of sand in someone else's desert.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We got a course in picknicking at the university," said Dr. Bourbon. "It's called Geology, but it's really picknicking.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jochum had said, "You keep asking the universe 'How ought I to live?' But it can't answer.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Look, Felicity,' says Howard, 'there's only one rule. Follow the line of your own desires.'”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'The trouble is, it's hard to know you're little,' says Felicity. 'People like to make themselves matter.'”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To you liberals, of course, goats are just sheep from broken homes.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The After Dinner Game (1975); published in The After Dinner Game: Three Plays for Television (1982) p. 25.
“In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rates of Exchange, part 4, ch. 3. (1983)
“The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cuts (1987) p. 42.
“A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sunday Times (29 November 1987).