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Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
English Novelist
Born: Feb 25, 1917
Died: Nov 22, 1993
Funny Good People Will Write You
Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray
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 You Celebrate Remember Part Come Always Going Where
Every dogma has its day. Anthony Burgess
Funny Day Every Dogma
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. Anthony Burgess
You Christ Will Believe Others Potential Unseen
He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child. Anthony Burgess
Respiration Find He Said Am His Child Artificial Now
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
War Peace Wait Care Will Living Furnish Must Never Retirement Read American Listen Leisure Which Room Really Meanwhile Helps Living Room
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. Anthony Burgess
Book Reading Possession Becomes Substitute
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
Needs Mistake Try Country Sense Unless Frankly Temper Admit Above Something Take Fails Demands Another Method Persistent Common Experimentation Common Sense Bold
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. Anthony Burgess
Art Become Write Renunciation Disinterested Certain
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. Anthony Burgess
Mind Habit Unconscious Unconscious Mind Itself Afternoon Asserting
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. Anthony Burgess
Too He Although Permitted Intellectual Intelligent May Either Should Novelist
I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I'm still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel. Anthony Burgess
Man Back London Someday About Seemed Abroad Write Towards Suppose Still Came South Very Going Manchester Where Want Regional Much Naturally Novel Near Gravitate Things
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel. Anthony Burgess
Funny Thought First Think Write Writer Wrote Comic Surprised Began Fiction Regarded Novel Serious
I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have written one or two novels which are not specifically funny. I wrote a study of Shakespeare which was not intended to be funny, but some people regard it as such. Anthony Burgess
Funny Natural People Writing Some People Clown One Or Two Some About Shakespeare Written Study Suppose Wrote Accept Intended Regard Anything Which Novels Specifically Two

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