Famous quotes with De nos jours

• La loyauté est une rue exclusive à double sens qui may've beaucoup de courbes, les virages et les torsions, mais il n'a jamais fourches. loyauté sans partage, incontestée et incontestable devient impensable de nos jours, que ce soit dans les relations personnelles ou professionnelles. vous êtes l'un des chanceux si vous l'avez trouvé. apprécier et tenir à vos amis et collègues fidèles, car ils sont extrêmement précieux.

  Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
• So Anthony Burgess, contrary to popular mythology, was not after all a literary genius, a novelist of world-encompassing ambition, an essayist who assessed literary reputations with the final-word gravitas of a Recording Angel; nor was he a polymath and polyglot as we'd thought, a synthesiser of all mythologies, a walking compendium of modern thought, philosophy and theology, phrase and fable, a cigar-puffing, apoplectic Dr Johnson de nos jours, a monumental figure about whom it was said when he died in 1993, that (as Thackeray said about Swift) 'thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling'. Nope, we were all wide of the mark. Don't you hate it when you get these things completely wrong?....Seen through [Lewis's] eyes, Burgess was a mendacious, drunken, impotent, vain, emotionless, puffed-up, talentless clown who neglected his first wife as she spiralled fatally into alcoholism, who lived abroad to avoid paying tax, and nursed a sentimental chip on his shoulder about not being sufficiently respected by the British establishment....In the presence of a genuinely great man, something odd happens to you - you feel older and wiser, worldlier and cleverer, and pleased with yourself just for being in his company....He was the sort of man who made you feel like cheering just because he existed, and there's nobody remotely like him around today. There are, unfortunately, more than enough Roger Lewises.

  Anthony Burgess

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