Anthony Burgess

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going. Anthony Burgess

Always Celebrate celebration

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. Anthony Burgess

Energy Know People

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. Anthony Burgess

Easy Men quotations on men

I didn't think; I experimented. Anthony Burgess

Experience Think

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. Anthony Burgess

Gray life is Life

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. Anthony Burgess

Degrees Desperation Money

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. Anthony Burgess

Age Beyond Going

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Anthony Burgess

Care Peace quotation on waiting

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Anthony Burgess

Common Sense Country Mistake

Every dogma has its day. Anthony Burgess

Day Dogma Every

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess

Alone Funny Sleep