"Violence among young people is an aspect of……" — Anthony Burgess
"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."
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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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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 possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
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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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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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