Anthony Burgess Quotes

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

Alone, Sleep, Laugh

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

Others, Christ, Potential

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

Good, Remember, Celebrate

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

Life, Through, Saturday

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
Anthony Burgess

Young, Energy, Violence

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

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Anthony Burgess

Rare, Readers, Thinkers

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

Once, Public, Week

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

Age, Youth, Known

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

Country, Try, Sense

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

Book, Reading, Possession

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

Art, Become, Write

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

May, Either, Although

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

Peace, War, Care

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

Books, Library, System

Every dogma has its day.
Anthony Burgess

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

Find, Said, Child

I didn't think; I experimented.
Anthony Burgess

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
Anthony Burgess

Great, Slang, Creators

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

Mind, Afternoon, Habit

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess

Men, Women, Fashion

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: February 25, 1917

Died: November 25, 1993

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