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

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Source : Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

Anthony Burgess

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“What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.”
“For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.”
“Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life ...”
“Peopleâ€™s interest is in the product, not in its authorship,”
“All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.”
“Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.”
“The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.”
“What we have been is an established and unchangeable fact. What we can yet become is an unlimited, boundless opportunity.”

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