To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
Quotes from Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 — Anthony Burgess
1917–1993 England
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Writers are not, by nature, respectable: their function is to be subversive.
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
(Singapore) is not even a place where a white man is permitted to go to pieces....
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
There is a profound middle-class nostalgia for the days of British protection....
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
With such exquisite women there is little need for aphrodisiacs....
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Chickaks or geckos chirp on the walls....
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony Burgess (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.