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[...] You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.
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It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
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'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'
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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 creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
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I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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Malcolm Bradbury
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Born:
July 7, 1932
Died:
November 27, 2000
(aged 68)
Bio:
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury was an English author and academic.
Known for:
The History Man (1975)
Eating People is Wrong (1960)
To the Hermitage (2000)
Stepping westward (1965)
Rates of Exchange (1983)
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