“I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.”

— Anthony Burgess, One Hand Clapping (1961)

About Anthony Burgess

1917 – 1993

English novelist, author of "A Clockwork Orange".

“Home to people like me is not a place but all places, all places except the one we happen to be in at the moment.”

“The important thing is to get yourself born. You’re entitled to that. But you’re not entitled to life.”

“It is man's job to be curious; it is man's job to try to find out the truth about the world about us.”

“The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day.”

“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”

“It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author—and not to learn it better.”

“There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.”