Anthony Burgess Quotes
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'
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It is better to be likable than to be talented.
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We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
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With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
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Business is all about the customer: what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and is delivered with amazing customer service.
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Sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.
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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.
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It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.
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It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God-who knows all that can be known-seems powerless to change.
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I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.
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Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
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Yes, I was a hippy - absolutely a hippy.
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I always thought when I got older that I'd be jealous of my children but I'm not. It's the opposite. I love seeing their possibilities. Nothing makes me as happy as sitting at dinner with loved ones, having a glass of wine with a meal that I've cooked. What could be better?
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With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.
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Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
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For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
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'Salam aleikum.'
