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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.
— Anthony Burgess
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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
— Anthony Burgess
Tags: going, beyond, youth, age
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
— Anthony Burgess
Tags: others, will, believe, you
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
— Anthony Burgess
Tags: plentiful, readers, thinkers, rare
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
— Anthony Burgess
Tags: may, intelligent, he, intellectual
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
— Anthony Burgess
Tags: sleep, world, you, alone, funny
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