Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
From Anthony Burgess
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
I didn't think; I experimented.
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
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