Malcolm Bradbury
Malcolm Bradbury
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBEwas an English author and academic...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 September 1932
Malcolm Bradbury quotes about
opposites groups way
To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.
book way stealing
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.
world way defining
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
english-novelist rigid
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
sex real struggle
The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.
home thinking sheep
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
distraction scholarship
Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship
fate actions-have-consequences people
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.
thinking people bed
Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.
problem life-is problem-solving
Life is a crisis - so what!
bad-friend emotional ought
I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.
i-love-you world warfare
Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.
funny humor world
I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.
sex groups given
If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs.