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“ The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression. ”

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

~ Anthony Burgess

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

~ Anthony Burgess

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

~ Anthony Burgess

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

~ Anthony Burgess