Quotes by Anthony Burgess

About Anthony Burgess:

John Anthony Burgess Wilson was an English writer and composer. From relatively modest beginnings in a Catholic family in Manchester, he eventually became one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?

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I was always on my oddy knocky.

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I was cured all right.

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And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout ...

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Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

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Then I wanted to sick up the gluey pie I'd had before the start of the evening, But I couldn't stand the sort of veshch, sicking all over the floor, so I held it back.

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You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capabl...

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Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

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Madem kimileri iyi insan olmayı seçiyor, madem bundan haz alıyorlar, onlara hayatta karışmam, kimse de bana karışmasın. Ama bana karışıyorlardı. Üstelik kötülük bireye özgüdür, sizlere, bana ve tek tabancalığımıza özgüdür ve...

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To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

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My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understand or would not want to understand at all and would do all the veshches I had done, yes perhaps even ...

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Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

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Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools canno...

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It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

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Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.

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The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded.

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Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

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Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.

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The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986

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Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They w...

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Oh? And what's so stinking about it?.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnthony Burgess
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • AliasesJohn Anthony Burgess Wilson
  • BornFebruary 25, 1917
  • DiedNovember 22, 1993
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Translator; Screenwriter; Poet; Composer; Novelist
  • AwardsPrometheus Award - Hall Of Fame