Anthony Burgess Quotes

Anthony Burgess — English Novelist born on February 25, 1917, died on November 25, 1993

John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English writer and composer. From relatively modest beginnings in a Catholic family in Manchester, he eventually became one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century... (wikipedia)

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Every dogma has its day.

Anthony Burgess Quotes

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