Tag: Anthony Burgess
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When I first began to write fiction, I didn’t think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.
Anthony Burgess
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess
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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although… he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Anthony Burgess
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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
Anthony Burgess
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The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
Anthony Burgess
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He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
Anthony Burgess
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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Anthony Burgess
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I’m a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can’t do anything about it. I have written one or two novels which are not specifically funny. I wrote a study of Shakespeare which was not intended to be funny, but some people regard it as such.
Anthony Burgess
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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Anthony Burgess
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
Anthony Burgess