"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 find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it."

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Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

Malcolm Bradbury

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“You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is.”
“The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.”
“From as early as I can remember, I wanted to have something to do with the acting business. I was a TV junkie as a kid and I think, because I grew up in a small town where I couldn't imagine myself staying there and couldn't see myself being any of the people that I was surrounded by in this town, I just knew that I wanted a different kind of a life, but I didn't know what that meant and I didn't know how.”
“We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.”
“Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck, And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.”

Source : Song: Rhymes Like Dimes, Album: Operation: Doomsday
“When they shall paint our sockets gray And light us like a stinking fuse, Remember that we once could say, Yesterday we had a world to lose.”
“I believe that the camera has aided animal welfare by giving a platform and a vision [for bringing] awareness to the most important animal-welfare issues worldwide.”

Source : "Katie Cleary, President and Founder of Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 1 Jan. 1978

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