Quotes
Quotes about Men
The autobiographer can see himself as the only true historian in the sense that he is presenting the life of perennial humanity. In the narrower sense, he provides the raw material for the social historian, demonstrating what it was like to be imprisoned in a particular segment of time.
Some men's sexual limit is the pit. Its rage can find a counterpart in how they mangle, tear and rape their art.
'There has to be eternal chastisement. That means eternal life.' 'A bit one-sided, all stick, no sugar. Listen, we're all sent to one big bedroom. Hitler undivided from John the twenty-third, the innocent and guilty, raped and rapist, with no cup of tea or orange juice to wake us up'.
If time's a true dimension we can pace or race or chase both up and down - again, again, again.
Love is the answer, love - you know the term? The body sacramental to the soul.
There were books and pictures on display, brisk commentaries on what these men had said, and barks about their pertinence to today.
There is, for everybody, a first time. A psychedelic moment, as they say or used to say nowadays, an instant of recognition of verbally inexpressible spiritual realities, a meaning for the term beauty.
Music and literature have this in common - that the dimension they work in is time.
The conscious act of concentration frees other segments of the senses and the mind to record the current of exterior life
The trouble with even sincere and sensible statements is that they can deal only in either tautology or lies
See how the live earth flowers. The land speaks my intent. Bear me accompaniment.
Life is one big punishment, but, thank God, we don't have to bear more than we want.
Music is a purer art (than literature) because it has no direct relationship to human events. It is totally outside the field of moral judgment
On Flaubert's 3 Contes: They are not quite short stories as we know them, then, yet to any modern writer, in whatever language, these are recommended as a fundamental textbook of style
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence
Create your characters, give them a time and place to exist in, and leave the plot to them; the imposing of action on them is very difficult, since action must spring out of the temparament with which you have endowed them
I split into several persons - the polite but inattentive listener, the unwilling student, the composer, the rabid reader of books unknowable to excisemen
The short story stops as soon as it starts - a symphonic exposition with no development section, no recapitulation, no coda
I didn't think, I experimented
Anthony Burgess A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. 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.
Liberalism breeds disappointment
Novels are created by men and women who put bottom to chair and pen to paper
Circle is circle, proves nothing, makes nothing, swallows up process and end in no argument, brings new picture of old time.
Nature's statements are simple enough: all change is circular
Where shall we go to seek superior men? Superior in what? - a voice asks then: the answer: in no more than being men
