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«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.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| Keywords:
aspect, creatively, desire to know, opposite
«Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
gray, Saturday, wretched
«Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.»
«Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.»
«When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract»
«The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
absorbed, absorbing, relation to
«If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| About:
Belief,
Religion
| Keywords:
christlike, The Unseen, unseen
«I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Mind,
Politics
«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.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| Keywords:
corrupted, corruptibility, dealing, fiction writer, in a sense, mainly, Sex and, Shakespeare, themes, tremendous
«To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
disinterested, renunciation
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