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Anthony Burgess Quotes

«Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.»
«Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.»
«Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.»
«Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.»
«When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract»
«The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed»
«If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.»
«I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.»
«If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.»
«To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.»

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