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"22 Anthony Burgess Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 25 February 1917. Died: 22 November 1993 | Writer | Composer |

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

We Destroy What Written
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But what I do I do because I like to do.

What I Do Because
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When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

When Man Choose Ceases
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It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

It Inhuman Good Evil
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I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

See What Right Approve
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Laugh World You Snore
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Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Language Exists Record Liberate
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Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive

Senseless Violence Prerogative Youth
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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Readers Plentiful Thinkers Rare
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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

We Money Degrees Despiration
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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.

Bath Day Clean Week
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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Possession Book Substitute Reading
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Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

Every Experience Food Greedy
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To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

Devastate Easier Spectacular Create
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Life to most of us is just a jumble of sensations, like a very bad film with no plot, no real beginning and end.

Life Sensations Very Film
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You must take your chance boy. The choice has been all yours.

You Take Chance Choice
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The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Important thing Moral Choice Evil
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...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Government Believes Everybody Illusion
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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

Believe Unseen Christ Potential
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Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

Translation Words Making Intelligible
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The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

Practice Fiction Dangerous Ideas
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Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

Writers Rarely Best Critics
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Anthony Burgess Quotes & Sayings