Anthony Burgess Quotes
1917 – 1993
English novelist, author of "A Clockwork Orange".
21 quotesAbout Anthony Burgess on Wikipedia
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”
“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
“The British were mostly philistines, and they left behind a heritage of philistinism.”
“The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.”
“Love seems inevitable, necessary, as normal and as easy a process as respiration.”
“I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.”
“The questioning of linguistic conventions is one of the main duties of what we call literature.”
“All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.”
“Writers are not, by nature, respectable: their function is to be subversive.”
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
