Malcolm Bradbury
Malcolm Bradbury
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBEwas an English author and academic...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 September 1932
english-novelist rigid
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
sociology can-do
With sociology one can do anything and call it work
discovery interesting world
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
good-friend visits-you lectures
Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.
suggestions liberalism ten-commandments
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
christian innocence sin
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.
sex groups given
If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs.
i-love-you world warfare
Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.
problem life-is problem-solving
Life is a crisis - so what!
opposites groups way
To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.
sex real struggle
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 think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.