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The quotations of

Anthony Burgess

English writer and composer

1917–1993

3 quotes.

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.
A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)
- Writing
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992)
- Art
It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.
Earthly Powers (1980)

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