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How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.
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The snarling, whining, pampered, analphabetic humanoids of Hollywood emerge as garbage irrelevantly gilded with adventitious photogeneity.
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Men are influenced by big loud empty words, styes which swell the eyelids and impede vision of the truth.
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It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.
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It was a cardinal rule in the East not to show one's true feelings.
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You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! I was cured alright.
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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.
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The word slang is vague and its etymology obscure. It suggests the slinging of odd stones or dollops of mud at the windows of the stately home of linguistic decorum.
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The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.
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Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
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Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.
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Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.
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What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.
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But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.
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A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.
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I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.
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Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.
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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.
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As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.
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If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.
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I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.
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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.
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Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.
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Even the police discussed this violence as possibly coming within the scope of their terms of reference.
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We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
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Anthony Burgess
Born:
February 25, 1917
Died:
November 22, 1993
(aged 76)
Bio:
John Anthony Burgess Wilson who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess was an English writer and composer.
Known for:
Earthly Powers (1980)
The Wanting Seed (1962)
One Hand Clapping (1961)
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