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.

Quote by Anthony Burgess

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential...

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential...

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know...

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know...

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed

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

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

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

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

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

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

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

I didn't think; I experimented.

I didn't think; I experimented.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that...

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that...

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential...

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential...

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation....

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation....

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Every dogma has its day.

Every dogma has its day.

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

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

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be...

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be...

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

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

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his...

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his...