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"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."
"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important."
"I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know."
"I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order."
"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."
"It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?"
"Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn."
Explore more quotes by Anthony Burgess
"Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?"
"A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey."
"You're a romantic, said Crabbe. 'You expect too much. Reality's always dull, you know, but when we see that it's all there is, well-it miraculously ceases to be dull."
"Youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines."
"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."
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