Anthony Burgess quotes

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. (Anthony Burgess)
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. View quote
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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. View quote
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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. View quote
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Every dogma has its day. View quote
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If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. View quote
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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. View quote
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What's it going to be then, eh? View quote
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This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it. View quote
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It's sapiens to be homo. View quote
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The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. (Anthony Burgess)
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? View quote
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It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. View quote
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What I do I do because I like to do. View quote
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Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? View quote
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We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it. View quote
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Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. View quote
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Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free. View quote
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All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. View quote
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I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong. View quote
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Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever. (Anthony Burgess)
Civilised my syphilised yarbles. View quote
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The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school. View quote
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...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines. View quote
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. View quote
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