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"I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer."
"God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able."
"If you fall into the category of people who want to make a great use of their existence, you need to ask yourself these two questions; "what am I doing now"?; "Where is it taking me to?"."
Explore more quotes by Anthony Burgess
"In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations."
"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."
"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."
"What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"
"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."
"Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice."
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