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Anthony Burgess

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-- Literature did not mock the grave because it was printed on the page, but because it could be carried around alive in the brain. BF

-- The end result of human history might be tragic but human nature itself is essentially comic. BF

-- Endless time is the essential condition of truth.

-- "Homage to Qwert Yuiop" (!)

-- The best countries are the easiest ones to get out of.

-- The French did not invent nakedness, but they invented the nude, which is a means of looking at nakedness from the aspect of one who believes in clothes.

-- Mother Earth represents the only reasonable aircraft. She does not go on strike and she is always on time. On her you hardly know you are travelling at all.

-- 'tiffin' -- a small luncheon.

-- Pantum - four-line Malay poem.

-- Lancashire- foods like Yorkshire pudding and Eccles cakes - {roots of my father's family?}

-- Women are women and aware of the reality of sexual magnetism.

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