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Quotes from Man of Nazareth — Anthony Burgess

1917–1993 England

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"Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things."

Man of Nazareth (1979)

…love…In all languages the word is treacherous and hard to define.

Man of Nazareth (1979)

…it is not easy to mark the boundaries of politics and religion.

Man of Nazareth (1979)

"And now," Herod calmly said, "You can kill all the new-born....Kill them all....take your men and let your men take their swords. Make sure they're sharp. To Bethlehem. Hack. Lunge. Chop. Kill."

Man of Nazareth (1979)

Despite Jesus's appearance on the earth to preach the doctrine of love, and despite the stout work of his disciples (all put to death in curiously ludic ways by the serious), it cannot be said that the kingdom of heaven he promised as a reward for love is as yet likely to overtake the kingdom of the serious, which we also may call the kingdom of Caesar.

Man of Nazareth (1979)

Attribution

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