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Anthony Burgess Quotes

Life’s only choosing when to die. Life’s a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It’s a tremendous relief not to have to choose Picture Quote #1

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? Picture Quote #1

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive Picture Quote #1

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense Picture Quote #1

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it Picture Quote #1

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me Picture Quote #1

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Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture Picture Quote #1

He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I’m to have his child Picture Quote #1

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist Picture Quote #1

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey Picture Quote #1

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing Picture Quote #1

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual Picture Quote #1

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It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist’s innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself Picture Quote #1

If you expect the worst from a person, you can’t ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Life’s only choosing when to die. Life’s a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It’s a tremendous relief not to have to choose (Anthony Burgess Quotes) Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? (Anthony Burgess Quotes) Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive (Anthony Burgess Quotes) I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense (Anthony Burgess Quotes) Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it (Anthony Burgess Quotes) I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me (Anthony Burgess Quotes) Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture (Anthony Burgess Quotes) He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I’m to have his child (Anthony Burgess Quotes) I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist (Anthony Burgess Quotes) A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey (Anthony Burgess Quotes) Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing (Anthony Burgess Quotes) Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual (Anthony Burgess Quotes) It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist’s innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself (Anthony Burgess Quotes) If you expect the worst from a person, you can’t ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction (Anthony Burgess Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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