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I didn't think I experimented.
Anthony Burgess
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Anthony Burgess
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 25
Died: 1993
Died: November 22
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laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.
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When the State withers, humanity flowers.
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You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
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Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
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But what I do I do because I like to do.
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There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.
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Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.
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Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
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Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
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