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Him Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth…
- 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. .…
- The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
- Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
- It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I…
- It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own…
- Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden