"With sociology one can do anything and call it work"

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Source : Malcolm Bradbury (1978). “Eating people is wrong”, Vintage

Malcolm Bradbury

#Sociology Quotes

“There are too many books I havenâ€™t read, too many places I havenâ€™t seen, too many memories I havenâ€™t kept long enough.”

Source : Herbert Kline, Irwin Shaw (1985). “New theatre and film, 1934 to 1937: an anthology”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and redesign how we produce and consume; to reshape how we live and work, or even to imagine the jobs that will be needed for transition”
“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”

Source : Quoted in New Outlook, Dec. 1933
“You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.”
“When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the 80s - that I had Robert Wagners pompadour. I said, What are you talking about? You mean the guy from Hart to Hart?”
“The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.”
“Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.”
“I remember one guy saying, "You're the only human out of all of them," and feeling a little concerned that somehow that meant I wasn't as funny.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

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