Anthony Burgess Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• 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

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

  Anthony Burgess

  Energy, Littles, Violence

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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

• 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.

  Anthony Burgess

  World, Violence, Life Is

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company

• If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

  Anthony Burgess

  Sex, Writing, Fiction

• We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

  Anthony Burgess

  Children, Son, Civilization

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