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Anthony Burgess Quotes

Anthony Burgess quotes

English Novelist, Writer February 25, 1917 – November 25, 1993

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Anthony Burgess quote: "It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God..."
It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good..."
Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? Anthony Burgess
The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. Anthony Burgess
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen- Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of..."
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me..."
How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil."
It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. Anthony Burgess
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Goodness comes from within... Goodness is something chosen. ..."
Goodness comes from within... Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he..."
Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "When the State withers, humanity flowers."
When the State withers, humanity flowers. Anthony Burgess
One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy dirty old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts; I could never stand to see anyone like that. whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was. Anthony Burgess
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever. Anthony Burgess

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