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Anthony Burgess Quotes

Anthony Burgess quotes

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

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...but we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure... Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of..."
You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do. Anthony Burgess
How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "The downtrodden are the great creators of slang."
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give..."
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van. Anthony Burgess
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. Anthony Burgess
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! I was cured alright. Anthony Burgess
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and..."
Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited! Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "I didn't think; I experimented."
I didn't think; I experimented. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "We're a government that believes in everybody having the..."
...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess quote: "It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery..."
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. Anthony Burgess
And then, before he told me, I knew what it was. The old ptitsa who hadall the kots and koshkas had passed on to a better world in one of the cityhospitals. I'd cracked her a bit too hard, like. Well, well, that waseverything. I thought of all those kots and koshkas mewling for moloko andgetting none, not any more from their starry forella of a mistress. That waseverything. I'd done the lot, now and me still only fifteen. Anthony Burgess
... 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. Anthony Burgess

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