Earthly Powers
Anthony Burgess
Top 10 Best Quotes
“In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.”
“There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.”
“People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.”
“Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.”
“Have you by chance brought some real British tea? Twining’s? Or from Jackson’s in Piccadilly?”
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action, knowledge, fiction, artists, persecution, freedom-of-expression, truth, life, language, innocence, motivation, procrastination, morality, awareness, art, freudian, reason
