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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Age Beyond Delights Going Grasp Known Youth

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Degrees Desperation Money Need

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It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Always Celebrate Come Going Good Part Remember Where You

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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: American Care Furnish Helps Leisure Listen Living Living Room Meanwhile Must Never Peace Read Really Retirement Room Wait War Which Will

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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Becomes Book Possession Reading Substitute

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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

Topics: Average Books Bookstore Branch Chain City Large Library Neighborhood Number System University

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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

Topics: Commerce Easy Fashion Jackets Meat Men Novelty Old Pipes Prefer Thrive Torn Women

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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Believe Christ Others Potential Unseen Will You

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He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Am Artificial Child Find He His Now Said I Am

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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

~Anthony Burgess

Topics: Although Either He Intellectual Intelligent May Novelist Permitted Should Too

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: February 25th, 1917

Died: November 25th, 1993

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