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Anthony Burgess

"In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations."

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"In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations."

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"Beautiful trees sometimes bear bitter fruit."

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"The perception of reality is something that is constructed by the human mind based on its own needs and knacks."

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"You see your reflections in thoughts not things."

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"The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo."

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"Infinite and finite are both mental constructs."

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"Reality is a perceptual illusion we have accepted as truth."

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"But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable, fact does not."

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"Let living know they will die one day. They ought to live wisely."

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"You pays your money and you takes your choice."

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"Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-."
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"A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey."
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"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."
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"It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil."
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"Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through."
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"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."
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"It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. 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?"
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"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
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"There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it."
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"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."
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