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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 Quotes

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

Desire English Novelist

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 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

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

Anthony Burgess

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

Anthony Burgess

Acting And Actors

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

Anthony Burgess

English Novelist

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Anthony Burgess

English Novelist

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Anthony Burgess

Books And Reading inspirational Quote of the Day

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

Anthony Burgess

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Anthony Burgess

Art Arts And Artists

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 Quotes

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

Common Sense English Novelist

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Anthony Burgess

English Novelist

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Anthony Burgess

Desperation English Novelist

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.

Anthony Burgess

Slang

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an intellectual. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Anthony Burgess

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Anthony Burgess

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Anthony Burgess

English Novelist

When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract - Anthony Burgess Quotes

When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract

Anthony Burgess

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed - Anthony Burgess Quotes

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed

Anthony Burgess

Books And Reading

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

Anthony Burgess

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Anthony Burgess

English Novelist

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Anthony Burgess

English Novelist

I didn't think; I experimented. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

I didn't think; I experimented.

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 Quotes

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

Books And Reading

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

Anthony Burgess

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Anthony Burgess

English Novelist

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

Anthony Burgess

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

Anthony Burgess

Every dogma has its day. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

Every dogma has its day.

Anthony Burgess

There is lots of scope for European banking deals. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

There is lots of scope for European banking deals.

Anthony Burgess

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

Anthony Burgess

English Novelist

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Anthony Burgess

Writers And Writing

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Anthony Burgess

English Novelist

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. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book. - 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. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Anthony Burgess

Books And Reading

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much. - Anthony Burgess Quotes

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

Anthony Burgess

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