Anthony Burgess Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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You have to be yourself.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I owe everything to France.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.
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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?
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…for thy huggest thy bolster, which men call a Dutch wife in some parts.
