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… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share
“There are no travellers now, only tourists. A traveller comes to see a reality that is there already. A tourist comes only to see… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share
“Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?' 'It's like having an operation,' said Treece. 'You don't know you've… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share
I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world. — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share
“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… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“There's always something or someone to do.''But don't you ever find it too much work, Howard?' asks Flora, 'All this dressing and undressing, all… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share
“..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share
“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… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share
