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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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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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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
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If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.
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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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When the State withers, humanity flowers.
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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
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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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laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.
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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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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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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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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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And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.
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The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
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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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Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.
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Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.
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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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If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
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There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.
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