61 Quotes by Malcolm Bradbury
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Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.
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Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.
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You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.
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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?
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Have a little sociological beano. As you said - in sociology one can do anything and call it work.
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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.
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Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes he preferred writers and sometimes he preferred people.
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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.
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With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is no answer. They're problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved for him so that he can go away thinking he lives in a beautiful world. It's not a beautiful world.
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