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“[T]he parody is so much better than anything that W. Somerset Maugham ever wrote himself.”
Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess

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“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

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“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”

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“Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.”

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“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.”

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“If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.”

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