Youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines. . Anthony Burgess
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  1. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
  2. Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.
  3. We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
  4. Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
  5. People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.
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