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Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

Well, everything’s a lesson, isn’t it? Learning all the time, as you could say.
– Anthony Burgess

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  1. 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
  2. The Lesson is Life and Life is the Lesson, and the Lesson does not contain a single Atom. – RSD
  3. Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning. – Mark Batterson
  4. I eye the three of them, considering. They’ll need a lesson in discretion before I go. Not a lethal lesson. Mom wouldn’t like that. – Eliza Crewe
  5. It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person’s history from their face. – Naama Yehuda
  6. You don’t always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement. – Bryant McGill
  7. For every mistake is a lesson and for every lesson learned is victory. – Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre
  8. You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is…Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. – Anthony Doerr
  9. You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn’t care. – Anthony Burgess
  10. The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress. – Anthony Burgess
  11. When we’re healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. – Anthony Burgess
  12. And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good. – Anthony Burgess
  13. In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. – Anthony Burgess
  14. Dreams go by opposites I was once told. – Anthony Burgess
  15. The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it. – Anthony Burgess
  16. 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
  17. It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. – Anthony Burgess
  18. I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother. – Anthony Burgess
  19. It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen. – Anthony Burgess
  20. The heresy of an age of reason,’ or some such slovos [words]. ‘I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong. – Anthony Burgess
  21. There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly. – Anthony Burgess
  22. A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. – Anthony Burgess
  23. Oh? And what’s so stinking about it?. – Anthony Burgess
  24. Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language – Anthony Burgess
  25. There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it. – Anthony Burgess
  26. The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet. – Anthony Burgess
  27. Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up. – Anthony Burgess
  28. A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth. – Anthony Burgess
  29. A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth. – Anthony Burgess
  30. Then there was like quiet and we were full of like hate, so smashed what was left to be smashed. – Anthony Burgess
  31. I can’t accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. – Anthony Burgess
  32. We’re a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. – Anthony Burgess
  33. Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness. – Anthony Burgess
  34. Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? – Anthony Burgess
  35. …I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless… – Anthony Burgess
  36. To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. – Anthony Burgess
  37. 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
  38. That’s the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law. – Anthony Burgess
  39. Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. – Anthony Burgess
  40. I was always on my oddy knocky. – Anthony Burgess

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