Anthony Burgess - People Quotes

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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

I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.

Anthony Burgess

All that the Malays can do is run the police force and the army.... They are not fitted even to the lowlier mechanical skills, such as car maintenance. They are essentially a people who have been pulled out of the kampongs into the towns, and the town in Malaysia seems essentially a Chinese creation.

Anthony Burgess

Sultan Aladdin... had few illusions about his own people: amiable, well-favoured, courteous, they loved rest better than industry,... their function was to remind the toiling Chinese, Indians and British of the ultimate vanity of labour.

Anthony Burgess

I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.

Anthony Burgess