Anthony Burgess Quotes
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
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America is a meritocracy.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
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Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only have one planet after all. We're better off cutting our emissions so we don't need them.
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There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
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Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, 'Thou shalt make no graven image.'
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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Leaving slowly, / sucking in cold air round a warm tongue, / ennui synchronized to the pulse, / reports from a coiled trachea, / It is only irregular clocks...
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…the British. Haughty, white, fat, ugly, by no means sympathique, cold…
