Famous Quotes from ...
Anthony Burgess
- Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.... Anthony Burgess {view}
- When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract... Anthony Burgess {view}
- Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.... Anthony Burgess {view}
- Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.... Anthony Burgess {view}
- The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.... Anthony Burgess {view}