“The price of contributing to the greatest literature the world has ever seen is often struggle and penury: art is still too often its own reward.”— Anthony Burgess, English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)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
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”— AristotleShare
“There be none of Beauty's daughters with a magic like thee; and like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me.”— Lord ByronShare
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it.”— Toni MorrisonShare
“I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”— Anne FrankShare
“Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”— Paulo CoelhoShare
“There is a science of intelligent living, an art of being fully human, in which we all can and ought to be creative.”— Laura Archera HuxleyShare
