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The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read.
Anthony Burgess
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Anthony Burgess
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 25
Died: 1993
Died: November 22
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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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The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
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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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Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
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But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.
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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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I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.
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Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
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When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
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Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.
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Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva.
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It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.
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Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
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Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.
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It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
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