Anthony Burgess Quotes
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.
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If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!'
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
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I like how steady the work in television is. Films, they're hard to come by. They're elusive. I've done a couple, independently financed. You do them, and maybe a few people will see them.
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I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.
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That's painful always to lose.
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Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
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You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
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But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.
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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.
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Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
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We are a plague on the Earth.
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…my two chronic diseases of gluttony and satyriasis…
