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World Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
- Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions,…
- As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.
- Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.
- The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.
- 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…
- 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…
- It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.
- To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
- Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it,…
- Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very…
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- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach