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Anthony Burgess quotes about life

English Novelist, Writer February 25, 1917 – November 25, 1993

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Anthony Burgess quote: "In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on..."
In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. Anthony Burgess
I am instructed by the Home Secretary to read out the following. . . . It is a prayer devised by the Ministry of Propaganda. . . . ‘It is conceivable that the forces of death which at present are ravaging the esculent life of this planet have intelligence, in which case we beseech them to leave off. It we have done wrong--allowing in our blindness natural impulse to overcome reason--we are, of course, heartily sorry. But we submit that we have already suffered sufficiently for this wrong... Anthony Burgess
But poor old Dim kept looking up at the stars and planets and the Luna with his rot wide open like a kid who'd never viddied any such thing before, and he said: "What's on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that?" I nudged him hard, saying: "Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely, with some getting knifed and others doing the knifing. Anthony Burgess
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
Go on, do me in, you bastard cowards, I don't want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this one.' I told Dim to lay off a bit then, because it used to interest me sometimes to slooshy what some of these starry decreps had to say about life and the world. I said: 'Oh. And what's stinking about it? Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through."
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. Anthony Burgess
Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not..."
Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate..."
The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Life is, of course, terrible."
Life is, of course, terrible. Anthony Burgess

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