34 ordspråk av Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess föddes den February 25th 1917 och dog den 25 November 1993 - English writer
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 A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an intellectual. |
| All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. |
| All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. |
| 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. |
| Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. |
| Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book. |
| 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. |
| Every dogma has its day. |
| He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child. |
| I didn't think; I experimented. |
| I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us. |
| If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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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Toplists (6 st)
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