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Great Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
- I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.
- A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. .…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.
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