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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
John Burgess Wilson
Joseph Kell
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Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
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As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.
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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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Life is, of course, terrible.
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As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.
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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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I start at the beginning, go on to the end, then stop.
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All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
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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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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
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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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Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
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Every dogma has its day.
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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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There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
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We are supposed to be the children of Seth but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.
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The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school.
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That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.
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Each man kills the thing he loves.
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When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
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