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Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.
Anthony Burgess
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Anthony Burgess
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 25
Died: 1993
Died: November 22
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When the State withers, humanity flowers.
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laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.
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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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Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
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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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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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It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
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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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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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When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
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