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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

  Feelings, Energy, Evening

  Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess (1972). “A clockwork orange”

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• I start at the beginning, go on to the end, then stop.

  Anthony Burgess

  Goes On, Ends

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

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• Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

  Anthony Burgess

  Class, Differences, Theatre

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• Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

  Anthony Burgess

  Doctors, Physicians, Credit

  Nothing Like the Sun (1964)

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• A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.

  Anthony Burgess

  Sex, Book, Boys

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• I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

  Anthony Burgess

  Responsibility, Guilt, Way

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• The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

  Anthony Burgess

  Slang, Downtrodden, Creator

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

  Anthony Burgess

  Love, Marriage, Sex

  "You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1990.

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• What's it going to be then, eh?

  Anthony Burgess

  Anthony Burgess (1998). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.6, A&C Black

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• There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

  Anthony Burgess

  Orange, Three, Alex

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

  Anthony Burgess

  Blessed, Bird, Tree

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• I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

  Anthony Burgess

  Children, Divorce, Elements

  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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• How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Wicked, Milk

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition”, p.48, Penguin UK

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• This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a mere barren speculative dispute.... This point of election... is not to be agitated in a verbal and contentious way, but in a saving way, to make us tremble and to set us upon a more diligent and close striving with God in prayer, and all other duties.

  Anthony Burgess

  Prayer, Curiosity, Way

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• The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

  Anthony Burgess

  Reading, Book, Substitutes

  New York Times Book Review 4 Dec. 1966, p. 74

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• I was always on my oddy knocky.

  Anthony Burgess

  Anthony Burgess (1998). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.38, A&C Black

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• 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

  Modern Youth, Down And, Great Music

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wine, Orange, Bird

  Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess (1972). “A clockwork orange”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

  Anthony Burgess

  Alex

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.204, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist’s innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Writing, Personality

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• Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva.

  Anthony Burgess

  Running, Cutting, Light

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

  Anthony Burgess

  Literature, World, Apocalypse

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• He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

  Anthony Burgess

  Children, Said, Respiration

  'Inside Mr Enderby' (1963) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Heaven, Lovely

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Giving, Perfect, Littles

  "Fictional character: Alex". "A Clockwork Orange", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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