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Anthony Burgess Quotes
Anthony Burgess
English
Novelist
Born:
Feb 25
,
1917
Died:
Nov 22
,
1993
Funny
Good
People
Will
Write
You
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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.
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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