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Anthony Burgess Quotes: Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
         

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.


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