Quote #9
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
More from Malcolm Bradbury
- 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 …
- The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
- A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative cr…
- Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.
- The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they…
- In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.
- To you liberals, of course, goats are just sheep from broken homes.
- I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.