Anthony Burgess Short Quotes

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That shut her up real horrorshow and lovely.

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I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

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

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I'm a typical Englishman of my class — a crank idealist.

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

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

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We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

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

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With such exquisite women there is little need for aphrodisiacs.

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How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

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

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Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

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It was a cardinal rule in the East not to show one's true feelings.

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If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

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

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

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All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

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He would milk the white man.... The white man had more money than sense.

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Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

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Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

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Writers are not, by nature, respectable: their function is to be subversive.

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

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Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

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It was all a matter of a Goddess — dark, hidden, deadly, horribly desirable.

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Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

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There is a profound middle-class nostalgia for the days of British protection.

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An Egyptian priest... plays up the mystery of language to enhance his own power.

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If the world is to be improved it must be by the exercise of individual charity.

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Love seems inevitable, necessary, as normal and as easy a process as respiration.

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