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Quotes from The Enemy in the Blanket — Anthony Burgess

1917–1993 England

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Celibacy is not merely unknown to Islam, it is unintelligible.

The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)

He forgot that the Malays revere cats and that the Chinese merely relish them.

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She gave the lie to the European superstition - chiefly a missionary superstition - that the women of the East are downtrodden.

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He would milk the white man....The white man had more money than sense.

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I decide that the East has definitely spoiled me for women.

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‘...You know what they call you expatriates? White leeches.’

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...with Indians there is an unhealthy love of the law...

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…the whole world here breathed easy concupiscence…

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…the British. Haughty, white, fat, ugly, by no means sympathique, cold…

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Her face was that of a boy gang-leader, smooth with the innocence of one who, by the same quirk as blinds a man to the mystery of whistling or riding a bicycle, has never mastered the art of affection or compassion or properly learned the moral dichotomy.

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...an Empire now crashing about their ears. The Sikh smiled at the vanity of human aspirations.

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…English translation of the Koran. I wonder how, with such a repetitive farrago of platitudes, expressing so self-evident a theology and an ethic so puerile, Islam can have spread as it has.

The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)

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