English - Novelist | February 25, 1917 - November 22, 1993
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
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Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
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Every dogma has its day.
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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.
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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.
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He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
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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.
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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.
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I didn't think; I experimented.
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The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
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