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Quotes from Earthly Powers — Anthony Burgess

1917–1993 England

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She sat shortly after, rosy-footed, in a pair of my black Charvet pajamas, sipping warm milk.

Earthly Powers (1980)

I lay a little while, naked, mottled, sallow, emaciated, smoking a cigarette that should have been postcoital but was not.

Earthly Powers (1980)

It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.

Earthly Powers (1980)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony Burgess (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.