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Anthony Burgess

"The downtrodden are the great creators of slang."

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"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."

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"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."

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"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."

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"Live with style and passion, don't seek the permission of others."

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"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."

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"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."
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"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."
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"The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours."
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"You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care."
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"Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now."
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"People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know."
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"The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it."
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"The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured."
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"Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up."
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