"Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship"

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Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “Cuts”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

Malcolm Bradbury

#Distraction Quotes #Scholarship Quotes

“But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.”
“Writing books for me is anyway much like a military campaign. I confess to fighting my way through with military metaphors. There is a strategy, an overall concept, and there are tactics along the wayâ€¦Tradition would say I was a 'child of Mars.'”
“I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.”
“Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.”
“These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.”
“It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.”
“Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.”

Source : John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”
“Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.”

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