Malcolm Bradbury Quotes

One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way...

Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative...

Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean somethin...

This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so pain...

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?''It's like having an operation,' sa...

You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me...

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structur...

Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic...

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the ...

With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answere...

Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and peopl...

With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

The trouble with me is, Treece thought, that I'm a liberal humanist who believes in original sin. I ...

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you d...

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world a...

Have a little sociological beano. As you said - in sociology one can do anything and call it work.

Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk...

..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion a...

Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.