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Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us ... and nothing.
— Malcolm Bradbury
Life is a crisis - so what!
— Malcolm Bradbury
Bucolic peace is not my ambience,
— Elizabeth Peters
With sociology one can do anything and call it work
— Malcolm Bradbury
Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship
— Malcolm Bradbury
Our present tears here, not our present laughter
Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter. — Robert Herrick
Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter. — Robert Herrick
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
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
Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?
— Malcolm Bradbury
If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs.
— Malcolm Bradbury
Your water does not refresh me, said the thirsty genie. Yet it is the coolest well in all the Diar Bekir.
— Stendhal
After all, the function of a vacation is regenerative, not luxurious. It's to restore our equipment so that we can live our ordinary lives better.
— Malcolm Bradbury
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
— Malcolm Bradbury
One is congenitally a woman; one tries not to be, but it's a question of one's humanity.
— Malcolm Bradbury
Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.
— Malcolm Bradbury
I've noticed your hostility towards him ... I ought to have guessed you were friends.
— 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.
— Malcolm Bradbury
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
Maybe one reason so many people have so many problems is that there are so many other people with so many solutions." (Love on a Gunboat")
— Malcolm Bradbury
Marriage, [ ... ], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.
— Malcolm Bradbury
There is time for you to pray, and there is time for you to fight!
— Sunday Adelaja
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
— Malcolm Bradbury
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
— 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.
— Malcolm Bradbury
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
— Malcolm Bradbury