
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
– Anthony Burgess
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- The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. – Gabrielle Zevin
- We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles
- You don’t ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don’t ask what you mean. You enjoy it. – Joseph Campbell
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- When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. – Oscar Wilde
- Despite the modern equipment we sell, it’s old money that funds it, and old money doesn’t always have a modern brain attached to it. – Taylin Clavelli
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- A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life. – Anthony Burgess
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- Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up. – Anthony Burgess
- A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth. – Anthony Burgess
- A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth. – Anthony Burgess
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- …I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless… – Anthony Burgess
- The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured. – Anthony Burgess
- That’s the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law. – Anthony Burgess
- Of course it was horrible,’ smiled Dr. Branom. ‘Violence is a very horrible thing. That’s what you’re learning now. Your body is learning it. – Anthony Burgess
- I was always on my oddy knocky. – Anthony Burgess
