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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
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.
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,... (more Anthony Burgess quotes)
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