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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
Malcolm Bradbury
God
Liberal
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
Malcolm Bradbury
Experience
Discovery
Ships
World
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
Malcolm Bradbury
Culture
Detail
World
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
Malcolm Bradbury
English
World
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury
Truth
Americans
English
Lies
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
Malcolm Bradbury
Liberals
Sheep
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.
Malcolm Bradbury
Corruption
Old
Property
Sin
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
Malcolm Bradbury
History
Men
American
English
Fathers
Trying