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Malcolm Bradbury
English
Novelist
About the author
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
Malcolm Bradbury,
English
Novelist
#American
#Men
#History
#English
#Trying
#Fathers
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
Malcolm Bradbury,
English
Novelist
#Old
#Sin
#Property
#Corruption
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
Malcolm Bradbury,
English
Novelist
#Sheep
#Liberals
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury,
English
Novelist
#English
#Truth
#Americans
#Lies
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
Malcolm Bradbury,
English
Novelist
#World
#English
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
Malcolm Bradbury,
English
Novelist
#World
#Culture
#Detail
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,
English
Novelist
#World
#Experience
#Discovery
#Ships
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
Malcolm Bradbury,
English
Novelist
#God
#Liberal