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Category: Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Malcolm Bradbury

The trouble with me is, Treece thought, that I’m a liberal humanist who believes in original sin. I think of man as a noble creature who has only to extend himself to the full range of his powers to be civilized and good; yet his performance by and large has been intrinsically evil and could be more so as the extension continues.

man, original-sin

Malcolm Bradbury

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can’t understand it.

defining, definition, eating-people-is-wrong, grandiose, humor, satire, simple-terms, understanding, verbosity

Malcolm Bradbury

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don’t recognize that, then that’s the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else’s fate to some extent.

actions, cruelty, fate, life, malcolm-bradbury, malcolm-bradbury-quotes, quotable-quotes, truth, world

Malcolm Bradbury

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

british-humor, humor, humorous

Malcolm Bradbury

Most beds aren’t as intimate as people think they are.

Malcolm Bradbury

Well, aren’t you just saying it’s better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

contentment, life, misery, neurosis, philosophy-of-existence, quotable-quotes, sensitive, unimaginative

Malcolm Bradbury

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory.

defeat, life, sensitives, victory, world

Malcolm Bradbury

Madness, genius, originality – it’s all the same thing; it’s a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.

genius, madness, originality

Malcolm Bradbury

Have a little sociological beano. As you said – in sociology one can do anything and call it work.

humor, satire, sociology

Malcolm Bradbury

Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic modality and wanted to stick flowers in your navel?

eating-people-is-wrong, humor, making-love, satire

Malcolm Bradbury

This education we’re giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that’s what makes it so painful. We’re showing them how to accomplish the ritual murder of ourselves.

education, murder