Malcolm Stanley Bradbury

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    Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people’s vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
    —Janet Malcolm (b. 1934)

    Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
    —W. Stanley Jevons (1835–1882)

    My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
    —Malcolm Bradbury (b. 1932)