“This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the… — Malcolm Bradbury Defeat Copy Share Image
On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking… — Malcolm Bradbury Ability Copy Share Image
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to… — Malcolm Bradbury American history Copy Share Image
“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and… — Malcolm Bradbury Despair Copy Share Image
“Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes… — Malcolm Bradbury Life Copy Share Image
“The trouble with me is, Treece thought, that I'm a liberal humanist who believes in original sin. I think of man as… — Malcolm Bradbury Man Copy Share Image
“You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand… — Malcolm Bradbury Defining Copy Share Image
“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 Contentment Copy Share Image
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. — Malcolm Bradbury Polite Copy Share Image
“Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic modality and wanted to… — Malcolm Bradbury Eating-people-is-wrong Copy Share Image
“Have a little sociological beano. As you said - in sociology one can do anything and call it work.” — Malcolm Bradbury Humor Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately Marx said that the important thing is not to understand the world but to change it. Poor man, he got it… — Malcolm Bradbury Change the world Copy Share Image
Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when… — Malcolm Bradbury Clear Copy Share Image
I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a… — Malcolm Bradbury Book Copy Share Image
“Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different… — Malcolm Bradbury Communication Copy Share Image
“There is a girl behind the desk in blue uniform, with dark red hair, spread fanlike from her head in lacquered splendour;… — Malcolm Bradbury Academic Copy Share Image
The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the… — Malcolm Bradbury Agents Copy Share Image
“Maybe one reason so many people have so many problems is that there are so many other people with so many solutions."… — Malcolm Bradbury Love Copy Share Image
But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then… — Malcolm Bradbury Action Copy Share Image
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. — Malcolm Bradbury Coping Copy Share Image
Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good… — Malcolm Bradbury Friendship Copy Share Image
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without… — Malcolm Bradbury Discovery Copy Share Image
