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Letter "A" » Anthony Burgess Quotes
«The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
bold, common mistake, experimentation, frankly, persistent
«Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.»
«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, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.»
«The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.»
«I didn't think; I experimented.»
«The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.»
«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.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| About:
Books,
Libraries
| Keywords:
bookstore, bookstores, branch, neighborhood
«Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| About:
Fashion,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
commerce, jackets, novelty, pipes, thrive, torn
«The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| Keywords:
adultery, aura, clings, European, itch, New England, penalty, polygamy, serial, theocratic, The European, The Problem of the
«We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| Keywords:
ancestral, attacks, Cain, effete, metal, nonentities, nonentity, Seth
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