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Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.
Anthony Burgess
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Anthony Burgess
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 25
Died: 1993
Died: November 22
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As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.
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A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.
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It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.
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When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
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Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance music, for instance.
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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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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
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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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Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
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Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?
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In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.
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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
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Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou.
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And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.
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Hitler was a teetotalitarian.
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