Anthony Burgess Quotes
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.
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Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
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It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and you just sit there and they bring these people in and out, and in out.
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I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.
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Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.
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Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
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suggest that we think of theories as spotlight. this imagery is useful. a spotlight will only illuminate so much. wiht any theory there will always be the things that are left in darkness, still unexamined and unexplained. parsons referred to these as'residual categories'.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
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Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.
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Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.
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The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From there, the modern Indian rights movement started, and it was a very hard fight, with a lot of stuff going against them.
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Well, I never lived through the Great Depression, sometimes I feel as though I did.
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‘it excites the pancreas to fresh efforts’
