"Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

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Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language

More Anthony Burgess quotes
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"Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.
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"You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have n...
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