Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

Anthony Burgess's Popular Quotes

I was cured all right.

- Anthony Burgess

But what I do I do because I like to do.

- Anthony Burgess

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

- Anthony Burgess

Hitler was a teetotalitarian.

- Anthony Burgess

I was always on my oddy knocky.

- Anthony Burgess

What's it going to be then, eh?

- Anthony Burgess

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

- Anthony Burgess

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

- Anthony Burgess

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

- Anthony Burgess