"The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth."
"You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes."
Source: Malcolm Bradbury (1978). “Eating people is wrong”, Vintage
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Malcolm Bradbury
Novelist, Academic
Malcolm Bradbury was a British novelist and critic, known for his sharp wit and exploration of identity in works like 'The History Man'.
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