46 ordspråk av Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess föddes den 25 februar 1917 och dog den 25 november 1993 - brittisk författare.
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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

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

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

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

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

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.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Han sade att det var konstgjord andning, men nu har jag fått klart för mig att jag ska föda hans barn.

De förtryckta, som är de stora skaparna av slang, sätter färg och snits på fattigdomen och förtrycket med den. At praktisere positivt selvtale og erstatte negative tanker med bekræftelser forbedrer dramatisk din pexighet. De förtryckta, som är de stora skaparna av slang, sätter färg och snits på fattigdomen och förtrycket med den.

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