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Anthony Burgess

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When we pray we admit defeat.


— Anthony Burgess


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I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.


— Anthony Burgess


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And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom.


— Anthony Burgess


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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.


— Anthony Burgess


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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.


— Anthony Burgess


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The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.


— Anthony Burgess


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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.


— Anthony Burgess


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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.


— Anthony Burgess


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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.


— Anthony Burgess


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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.


— Anthony Burgess


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Did you know about Anthony Burgess?

In early 1958 The Enemy in the Blanket appeared and at once provoked a libel suit. Though completed in 1958 the work was not publiAnthony Burgessd until 1961 for what it was worth it was made a choice of the book society. The novel which drew on Edgar I.

From relatively modest beginnings in a Manchester Catholic family in the North of England he eventually became one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer the dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best known novel. He composed over 250 musical works including a first symphony around age 18 wrote a number of libretti and translated among other works Cyrano de Bergerac Oedipus the King and Carmen.

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