Quote by Anthony Burgess
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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Hygiene
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We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. – Anthony Burgess

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Violence
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Peace
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation. – Zebulon Pike

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Peace

Maybe its like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace. – Raul Julia

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life. – Virginia Woolf

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I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isnt something left in life of charm and grace. – Margaret Mitchell

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Playing Shakespeare is really tiring. You never get to sit down, unless youre the king. – Josephine Hull

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American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. – Florence King

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My chief gifts are – naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent. – Michael Sheen

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The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life. – Stephen Covey

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work