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Anthony Burgess
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 25
Died: 1993
Died: November 22
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Manchester
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John Anthony Burgess Wilson
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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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Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.
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For the serious artist does not satisfy needs
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The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.
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To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.
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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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Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
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laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.
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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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Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
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Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.
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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
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When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
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I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because the fact is that if you write as little as a page of prose-even bad prose-that is eternal.
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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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I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.
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And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.
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Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.
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Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.
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