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Malcolm Bradbury

Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE (7 September 1932 – 27 November 2000) was an English author and academic.

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

Bed, Beds, Intimate, People, Think, Thinking

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.

Good Friend, Visits You, Lectures, Visits, Good, Hear

I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.

Code, Funny, Humor, Like, Rigid, World

Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

Newspaper, Nothing, Reading, Right, Sleep, Wife

If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs.

Given, God, Groups, Meant, Organs, Sex

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.

Christian, Christians, Corruption, Innocence, Sin

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

Deceit, English, Lies, Lying, Telling, Telling The Truth

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

Love, Sexy, Warfare, World, Marriage

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.

Fate, Actions Have Consequences, People, Everyone, Actions, Supreme

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.

Away, Dumping, Real, Sex, Struggle, Think

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Details, Culture, World, Coping

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

Sociology, Can Do, Call, Work

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Completely, Discovery, Experience, Finds, Interesting, World

Life is a crisis - so what!

Crisis, Life, Life Is, Problem, Problem Solving

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Education, Space, Campus, Actually, Discover