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Anthony Burgess quotes

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

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Anthony Burgess quote: "To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the..."
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music..."
And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "If you expect the worst from a person you can never be..."
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. Anthony Burgess
I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has. Anthony Burgess
Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange? Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads..."
We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain..."
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. Anthony Burgess
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved..."
Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned. Anthony Burgess
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. Anthony Burgess
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
Anthony Burgess quote: "English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb...."
English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words. Anthony Burgess
And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all. Anthony Burgess
Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva. Anthony Burgess

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