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Anthony Burgess
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Anthony Burgess
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 25
Died: 1993
Died: November 22
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When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
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The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.
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This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's nothing more delightful than to be told, 'You don't have to learn, my boy. There's nothing in it. Modern art? There's nothing in it.
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Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.
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But what I do I do because I like to do.
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And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.
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If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
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It'll be your own torture, he said, serious. I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
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