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If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
Anthony Burgess
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Anthony Burgess
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 25
Died: 1993
Died: November 22
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Every dogma has its day.
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The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.
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Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.
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Civilised my syphilised yarbles.
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laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.
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That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.
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I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.
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I was always on my oddy knocky.
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Each man kills the thing he loves.
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Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.
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If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.
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