Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English writer and composer. From relatively modest beginnings in a Catholic family in Manchester, he eventually became one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 February 1917
life retirement peace
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.
life friday sunday
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
opposites moral life-is
Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
life mean thinking
I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.
somewhere-else ghost life-is
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
world violence life-is
Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.
life-is terrible courses
Life is, of course, terrible.
life-is wells bits
Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.
life-and-love dogma
Every dogma has its day.
life real color
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.
love life relationship
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
average branch chain large number university
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.
civilised
Civilised my syphilised yarbles.
school government self
The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.