"When a man cannot chose, he ceases to…" — Anthony Burgess
"When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man."
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134 Quotes by Anthony Burgess
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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…
- Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
- If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
- We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
- Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid…
- Every dogma has its day.
- The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
- The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
- Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
- 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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