Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"بالسوسيولوجيا، يمكن للمرء أن يفعل أي شيء ويسميه عملاً."
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"With sociology one can do anything and call it work."
"بالسوسيولوجيا، يمكن للمرء أن يفعل أي شيء ويسميه عملاً."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?"
"ألا تقول بذلك إن الأفضل أن يكون المرء عصابياً، حساساً، وبائساً، على أن يكون عديم الخيال، متكيفاً، وراضياً؟ فهل هذا أفضل حقاً؟"
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory."
"هذا ما كان يحدث لأمثال هؤلاء، أصحاب الحس المرهف، الذين يحاربون العالم وفي النهاية يسمحون له بالانتصار دائمًا، لأن للهزيمة طعمًا ألذ بكثير من طعم النصر."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one."
"الجنون والعبقرية والأصالة، كلها سواء؛ إنها تحطيم لبنية قيمنا المعتادة واستبدالها بأخرى."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"Have a little sociological beano. As you said - in sociology one can do anything and call it work."
"دعنا نقيم حفلة سوسيولوجية صغيرة. فكما قلتَ أنتَ — في علم الاجتماع، يمكن للمرء أن يفعل أي شيء ويسميه عملاً."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic modality and wanted to stick flowers in your navel?"
"حسناً، حقاً، كيف لك أن ترغب في ممارسة الحب مع شخص لا يكف عن الثرثرة حول نمطه الصوفي الخالص ويريد أن يغرس الزهور في سرتك؟"
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so painful. We're showing them how to accomplish the ritual murder of ourselves."
"إن هذا التعليم الذي نُلقّنه إياهم هو، بلا ريب، أداة الفناء؛ وهذا ما يجعله مؤلمًا إلى هذا الحد. فنحن نُريهم كيف يُتمّون الذبح الطقسي لذواتنا."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and then comes an external vision to say: you are a fake, you are nothing, you're animal and must die, and no one will know you were ever here. It's an intimation of the whole absurdity of what you are and do. It's the worst kind of despair."
"يمكن للمرء دائمًا أن يُرضي نفسه، أظن؛ أما إرضاء الآخرين فمحال. يظن المرء أن طريقة حياته قويمة، ثم تأتيه رؤية خارجية لتخبره: أنت زائف، أنت لا شيء، أنت حيوان ويجب أن تموت، ولن يعلم أحد أنك كنت هنا يومًا. إنها إيماءة إلى العبثية الكاملة لما أنت عليه وما تفعله. إنه أسوأ أنواع اليأس."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of possibilities that led to the formation of accurate opinion. The students could be, as it were (he said), the rubbing post for the thought of his teacher."
"...كانت الوظيفة الحقيقية للجامعة تكمن في تعزيز ذلك التفاعل بين وجهات النظر، وتلك المناقشة والجدال، وذلك التضييق التراكمي للنطاق الممكن الذي يفضي إلى تكوين الرأي الدقيق. ويمكن للطلاب، كما قال، أن يكونوا بمثابة محكٍّ لِفِكر أستاذهم."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"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, Eating People is Wrong
"You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is no answer. They're problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved for him so that he can go away thinking he lives in a beautiful world. It's not a beautiful world."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes he preferred writers and sometimes he preferred people."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us...and nothing."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
"Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like''It's like having an operation,' said Treece. 'You don't know you've had it until long after it's over."
Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
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