Anthony Burgess Quotes - Page 3

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• Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

  Anthony Burgess

  Colonialism, Reason, Colonization

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “Earthly Powers”, p.242, Random House

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• I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.

  Anthony Burgess

  Writing, Names, Firsts

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.51, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mean, Men, Grace

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• There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

  Anthony Burgess

  Vocabulary, Earth, Flesh

  Anthony Burgess (1964). “Language made plain”

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• 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

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• A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Writing, Men

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

  Anthony Burgess

  Writing, Names, Desire

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

  Anthony Burgess

  Critics

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

  Anthony Burgess

  Believe, Unseen, Christ

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• But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.

  Anthony Burgess

  Thinking, Discovery, Expectations

  Anthony Burgess (1980). “Earthly powers”, Simon & Schuster

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• A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

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  Journey, Fiction, Should

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

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• ...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

  Anthony Burgess

  Real, Men, Essentials

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The writer's life seethes within but not without.

  Anthony Burgess

  Writing

  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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• Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

  Anthony Burgess

  Sex, Writing, Literature

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “Little Wilson and Big God”, p.173, Random House

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• 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

  School, Government, Self

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.

  Anthony Burgess

  God, Glasses, World

  Anthony Burgess (1656). “CXLV Espository Sermons Upon the Whole 17th Chapter of the Gospel According to St. John: Or, Christ's Prayer Before His Passion Explicated and Both Practically and Polemically Improved”, p.159

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• Hitler was a teetotalitarian.

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  Anthony Burgess (2010). “Byrne”, p.36, Random House

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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?

  Anthony Burgess

  Dog, Real, Animal

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• All novels are experimental.

  Anthony Burgess

  Fiction, Novel

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

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  Mind, Afternoon, Awareness

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.

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  Memories, Two, Years

  "English Literature: A Survey for Students". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1958.

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• What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Mean, Borders

  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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• Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Friday, Sunday

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• Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

  Anthony Burgess

  Ignorance, World, Poverty

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• Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

  Anthony Burgess

  Civilised

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition”, p.54, Penguin UK

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