All Anthony Burgess Quotes
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
Anthony Burgess
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess
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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.
Anthony Burgess
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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Anthony Burgess
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Anthony Burgess
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
Anthony Burgess
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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Anthony Burgess
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He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
Anthony Burgess
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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
Anthony Burgess
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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess
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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
Anthony Burgess
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