Quote by Anthony Burgess
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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess

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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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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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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. – Aldous Huxley

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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. – Wendell L. Willkie

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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

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