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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Alone Laugh Laughs Sleep Snore World You

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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Plentiful Rare Readers Thinkers

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Every dogma has its day.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Day Dogma Every

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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Gray Life Life Is A Lived Saturday Through Wretched

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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Avoid Bath Being Clean Day Menace Once Once A Week Public Really Twice Twice A Day Week

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I didn't think; I experimented.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Think

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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Afternoon Habit Itself Mind Unconscious

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The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Creators Great Slang

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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.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Above Admit Another Bold Common Common Sense Country Demands Experimentation Fails Frankly Method Mistake Needs Persistent Sense Something Take Temper Try Unless

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Art Become Certain Disinterested Write

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: February 25th, 1917

Died: November 25th, 1993

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