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Malcolm Bradbury was an English author known for his science fiction and postmodernist literature. His works often explore themes of technology, culture, and social change, with 'W------+Z' and 'The History Man' being his most famous novels.

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Famous Malcolm Bradbury Quotes

“This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory.”

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Book:Eating people is wrong

Source: Eating people is wrong

“With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is no answer. They're problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved for him so that he can go away thinking he lives in a beautiful world. It's not a beautiful world.”

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Book:Eating people is wrong

Source: Eating people is wrong

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

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Book:The history man: a novel

Source: The history man: a novel

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

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“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.”

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Book:Eating people is wrong

Source: Eating people is wrong

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

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Book:Eating people is wrong

Source: Eating people is wrong

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

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Book:Stepping Westward

Source: Stepping Westward

About the Author

Born: September 7, 1932
Died: November 27, 2000
Known for: Author
Quotes: 34

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