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Anthony Burgess
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 25
Died: 1993
Died: November 22
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Manchester
England
John Anthony Burgess Wilson
John Burgess Wilson
Joseph Kell
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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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And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.
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Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.
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Each man kills the thing he loves.
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I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.
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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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A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.
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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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The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.
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Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.
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The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
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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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All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
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laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.
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Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.
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For the serious artist does not satisfy needs
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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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