Quotes by Anthony Burgess

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean,...

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait...

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

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

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

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

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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library:...

#Books, #Libraries

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

#Commerce, #Fashion, #Men And Women

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

#Writing

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

#Belief, #Religion

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

#Funny, #Sleep