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Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. – Anthony Burgess

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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. – Anthony Burgess

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The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It – Anthony Burgess

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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They dont know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. – Anthony Burgess

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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war. – Xavier Becerra

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Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process. – Martin McGuinness

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Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. – Isabelle Adjani

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Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war. – Gerry Adams

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