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“I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.”
Source: Eating People is Wrong (1959), Ch. 5
Source: Eating People is Wrong (1959), Ch. 5
Malcolm Bradbury Quotes
Page 227.
Stepping Westward (1965)
“Jochum had said, "You keep asking the universe 'How ought I to live?'”
But it can't answer."
Page 406.
Stepping Westward (1965)
Source: Eating People is Wrong (1959), Ch. 8
“In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.”
Rates of Exchange, part 4, ch. 3. (1983)
“Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.”
Malcolm Bradbury book The History Man
Page 10.
The History Man (1975)
“To you liberals, of course, goats are just sheep from broken homes.”
The After Dinner Game (1975); published in The After Dinner Game: Three Plays for Television (1982) p. 25.
Co-written with Christopher Bigsby.
Malcolm Bradbury book The History Man
Page 126.
The History Man (1975)
“Look, Felicity,' says Howard, 'there's only one rule. Follow the line of your own desires.”
Malcolm Bradbury book The History Man
Page 84.
The History Man (1975)
“[…] You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.”
Page 352-353.
Stepping Westward (1965)
“The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”
Page 269.
Stepping Westward (1965)
“With sociology one can do anything and call it work.”
Source: Eating People is Wrong (1959), Ch. 7
“I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.”
Malcolm Bradbury book The History Man
Page 134.
The History Man (1975)
“All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.”
Malcolm Bradbury book The History Man
Page 117.
The History Man (1975)
