Anthony Burgess Quotes
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.
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Time and time again, small businesses testify before the Committee on Small Business that they simply want the government to 'get out of the way.'
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Basketball players aren't always the best dressers.
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If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.
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Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.
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When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well, I would eat, eat. Eating would make me feel better; when I felt lonely, I would eat.
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The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
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My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him break dancing on this piece of a cardboard. I probably always thought they were cool since then. I never knew his comedy, but I used to always see him break dancing. And he was terrible at it.
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I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.
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Isn't that sad! I'm so fragile. It's tragic laughs. Can you believe it? That's so sad.
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Oh! Women can never forgive me. They hate me, they can feel that I ‘m disarming them. I show them without their coquetry, in the states of animals cleaning themselves... ...I'm sure of it; they see me as the enemy. Fortunately, since if they did like me, that would be the end of me.
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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Oh, when I was in love with youThen I was clean and brave,And miles around the wonder grewHow well did I behave.And now the fancy passes byAnd nothing will remain,And miles around they'll say that IAm quite myself again.
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I wanna fuck her, but I don't want to vote for her.
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.
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Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.
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Preach the gospel to all the world! It is as free to all mankind as the air we breathe.
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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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'What's it going to be then, eh?'
