“Modern spelling crystallises lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.”— Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)Share
“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.”— Anthony BurgessShare
“The important thing is to get yourself born. You’re entitled to that. But you’re not entitled to life.”— Anthony BurgessShare
“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.”— Anthony BurgessShare
“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”— Winston ChurchillShare
“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end.”— Albert CamusShare
