Best Anthony Burgess Sayings
- Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time,… All
- All novels are experimental. All
- The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. Dangerous
- Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything… Collective
- Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. Becomes
- With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. Agents
- As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused. Brighten
- A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive. Car
- The writer's life seethes within but not without. Funny
- For the serious artist does not satisfy needs Artist
- I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're… Find
- As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of… All
- Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare. Anywhere
- The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. Absorbed
- The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European… Adultery
- Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. Best
- The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that… Art
- You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive. Any
- In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the… Age
- This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother to learn? There's… Age
- Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities. Entities
- Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? Better
- You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned… All
- Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thy globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come and… Any
- A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the… Any
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