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There are 31 quotes for the author Anthony Burgess

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Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.
Subject: Community

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

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Subject: Fashion

I didn't think; I experimented.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

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.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

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.

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.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

Every dogma has its day.

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

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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.

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