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The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

Malcolm Bradbury

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Malcolm Bradbury
Age: 68 †
Born: 1932
Born: September 7
Died: 2000
Died: November 28
Author
Literary Critic
Novelist
Satirist
Screenwriter
Teacher
University Teacher
Writer
Sheffield
England
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
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