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Anthony Burgess
Americans will listen,...
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...
A novelist should...
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an...
Art is dangerous....
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want...
The trouble began...
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six...
Blockbusting fiction is...
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted....
Americans will listen,...
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...
Laugh and the...
Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.
Source: Inside Mr....
Novelists are perhaps...
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has...
Life is a...
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
Source: On Samuel...
Death comes along...
Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.
Source: From Rand Lindsly's HUGE...
The possession of...
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Source: New York...
The unconscious mind...
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
Source: In...
He said it...
He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child.
Source:...
Bath twice a...
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public...
We all need...
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
Source: In Face, (London),...
Americans will listen,...
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...
A novelist should...
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an...
Art is dangerous....
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want...
The trouble began...
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six...
Blockbusting fiction is...
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted....
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