"The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression."

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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."

"Life is but words."

"He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the muddy, guttural, phlegmish lowlands."

"And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then."

"In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything."

"What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?"

"Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)"

"The wonder of words."

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?"

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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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