"The possession of a book becomes a substitute……" — Anthony Burgess
"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
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134 Quotes by Anthony Burgess
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy…
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It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part…
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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid…
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Every dogma has its day.
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
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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…
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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people…
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise…
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
— Charles Babbage
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
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