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  1. Anthony Burgess _ Earthly Powers

    ...I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...
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  2. Anthony Burgess _ Earthly Powers

    Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.
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  3. Anthony Burgess _ Earthly Powers

    In other words, I heard life going on, and it was a comfort.
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  4. Anthony Burgess _ Earthly Powers

    The religious impulse can be very dangerous. It damages, sometimes permanently.
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  5. Anthony Burgess _ Earthly Powers

    It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something too of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality.
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  6. Anthony Burgess _ Earthly Powers

    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.
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  7. Anthony Burgess _ Earthly Powers

    Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.
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  8. Anthony Burgess _ Earthly Powers

    I must give up seeing people, I told myself.
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  9. Anthony Burgess _ Earthly Powers

    But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.
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  10. Anthony Burgess _ Earthly Powers

    A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.
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  11. Anthony Burgess _ Earthly Powers

    I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.
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  12. Anthony Burgess _ Earthly Powers

    Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter.
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