"Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures."

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Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Rates of Exchange”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

Malcolm Bradbury

#Good Friend Quotes #Lectures Quotes #Prison Quotes

“In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon them to beware of the intemperate arrogance which attributes failure to a degraded condition of the public mind. The instinct which leads the world to worship success is not dangerous. The book which succeeds accomplishes its aim. The book which fails may have many excellencies, but they must have been misdirected.”
“I feel kind of fortunate that over the last 25 years I've been in almost every Disney/Pixar film.”
“Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.”

Source : "A Sense of Place". Interview with Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.
“Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.”
“When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.”
“I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers.”
“People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!”
“There are three things you need to live abundantly: awareness, imagination and gratitude.”

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