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“Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.”
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“I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.”
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“The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.”
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“Chess is a game of bad moves.”
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“As I’m so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I’ll hear the words, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.”
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“Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.”
Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2017). “The History Man: Picador Classic”, p.141, Pan Macmillan
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“I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.”
Source : "Bailey Chase from TV’s Longmire: Changing Roles, Changing Perspectives". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.”