22 Quotations by Anthony Burgess
- 1. All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
![All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.. Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 2. Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti ...
![Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti .... Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 3. Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions that when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it
![Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions that when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 4. Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a p ...
![Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a p .... Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 5. Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00 ...
![Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00 .... Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 6. I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
![I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.. Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 7. If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
![If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.. Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 8. If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fic ...
![If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fic .... Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 9. Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
![Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.. Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 10. Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
![Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.. Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 11. Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a no ...
![Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a no .... Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 12. The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New Engl ...
![The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New Engl .... Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 13. The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experiment ...
![The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experiment .... Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 14. The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
![The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.. Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 15. The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
![The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.. Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 16. The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or ...
![The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or .... Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 17. To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
![To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.. Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 18. Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their ...
![Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their .... Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 19. We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
![We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.. Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
- 20. We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve a ...
![We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve a .... Anthony Burgess.](/img/view.gif)
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