Anthony Burgess - Life Quotes

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The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.

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Trade and gambling and a woman occasionally — that was a man's life.

Anthony Burgess

The important thing is to get yourself born. You're entitled to that. But you're not entitled to life. Because if you were entitled to life, then the life would have to be quantified. How many years? Seventy? Sixty? Shakespeare was dead at fifty-two. Keats was dead at twenty-six. Thomas Chatterton at seventeen.

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Out of the stones that life threw at him he made a labyrinth.

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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.

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Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

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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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As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

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