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Inspirational Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- Every dogma has its day.
- The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
- I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.
- I didn't think; I experimented.
- Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.
- The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.
- He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child.
- Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.
- To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.
- All novels are experimental.
- The writer's life seethes within but not without.
- The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.
- Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.
- You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.
- When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
- But what I do I do because I like to do.
- What's it going to be then, eh?
- Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
- When the State withers, humanity flowers.
- This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.
- If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
- Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.
- Each man kills the thing he loves.
- I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
- We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento