The trouble with me is, Treece thought, that I'm a liberal humanist who believes in original sin. I think of man as a noble creature who has only to extend himself to the full range of his powers to be civilized and good; yet his performance by and large has been intrinsically evil and could be more so as the extension continues. Malcolm Bradbury
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  2. I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days. - Jon Stewart
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More Quotes By Malcolm Bradbury
  1. There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand...
  2. An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.
  3. The Greeks who knew everything understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.
  4. The Ottawa river flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.
  5. The trouble with this whole country is that it's divided up into little puddles with big fish in each one of them.
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