Anthony Burgess Quotes

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

  Anthony Burgess

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

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• Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mad, World, Sanity

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• To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

  Anthony Burgess

  Solitude, World, Modern

  "But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1986.

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• The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

  Anthony Burgess

  Order, Evil, Choices

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

  Anthony Burgess

  Imagination, Records, Language

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• I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

  Anthony Burgess

  Human Nature, Nonsense

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• 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

  Hymns, Where You Come, Celebration

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• If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

  Anthony Burgess

  Worst, Disappointed, Persons

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• 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

  Opposites, People, Creative

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• Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

  Anthony Burgess

  Design, Culture, Matter

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• Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Wall, Hard Work

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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• ...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

  Anthony Burgess

  Believe, Government, Free Will

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• The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation.

  Anthony Burgess

  Sex, Book, Violence

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• The state is never so efficient as when it wants money.

  Anthony Burgess

  Want, States, Efficient

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Choices, Doe

  Anthony Burgess (1998). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.24, A&C Black

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• If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.

  Anthony Burgess

  Orange, Evil, Lovely

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Soul, Growing

  Anthony Burgess (1982). “Here comes everybody: an introduction to James Joyce for the ordinary reader”, Hamlyn

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• Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.

  Anthony Burgess

  Birthright

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• When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Choices, Be A Man

  "A Clockwork Orange". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1962.

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• As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Confused, Maturity

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

  Anthony Burgess

  Writing, Character, Facts

  "A Clockwork Orange".

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• Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

  Anthony Burgess

  Order, Evil, Choices

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Philosopher, Mystery

  "A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English". Book by Anthony Burgess, October 1992.

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• Every dogma has its day.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life And Love, Dogma

  "Fictional character: The Doctor". "Doctor Who/ Time and the Rani: Part Four", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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

  Anthony Burgess

  Evil, Clockwork, Inhuman

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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