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Famous Anthony Burgess Quotes
“Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.”
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
“Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!”
“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
“But what I do I do because I like to do.”
“What's it going to be then, eh?”
“It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.”
“Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.”
“When the State withers, humanity flowers.”
“This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.”
“...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.”
“If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.”
“Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.”
“Each man kills the thing he loves.”
“I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.”
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
“How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
“Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.”
“If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.”