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Anthony Burgess
English
Novelist
About the author
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,
English
Novelist
#People
#Violence
#Desire
#Energy
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#Old
#Men
#Fashion
#Women
#Novelty
#Commerce
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#Youth
#Age
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
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,
English
Novelist
#Country
#Needs
#Mistake
#Temper
#Common sense
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#Slang
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#Reading
#Possession
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#Art
#Renunciation
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
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#Money
#Desperation
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#Habit
#Mind
#Unconscious
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Christ
#Potential
I didn't think; I experimented.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#Now
Every dogma has its day.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#Day
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,
English
Novelist
#Books
#University
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
#Public
#Day
#Being
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,
English
Novelist
#Will
#War
#Peace
#Living
#Americans
#Care
#Leisure
#Retirement
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#May
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#Life
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess,
English
Novelist
#World
#Sleep