Anthony Burgess Quotes
There must always be somebody. However young or insignificant. There has to be somebody who comes from nowhere to say what others are too foolish or too frightened to say.
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
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You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
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Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
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No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
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Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God's service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest.
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Most blacks want school vouchers, but most liberals vehemently oppose them. Why? Because what is good for teachers' unions is of more importance to the Left than what is good for blacks. Who, then, is racist? By their own admission, and by the policies they pursue, the answer is the people who call themselves progressive.
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Sometimes I come here just to be a lost mariner.
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Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them.
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He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.
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There must always be somebody. However young or insignificant. There has to be somebody who comes from nowhere to say what others are too foolish or too frightened to say.
