Clockwork Quotes

• 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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• I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I will think of you, for without you I would have been dead years ago. When I wake up and when I sleep, when I lift up my hands to defend myself or when I lie down to die, you will be with me. You say we are born and born again. I say there is a river that divides the dead and the living. What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Princess, Sleep

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• Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Hero, Fate

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not a certified idiot—" "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Idiot, Prove

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.953, Simon and Schuster

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• Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Eye, Heart

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Rivers, Waiting

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you." - Tessa Gray

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Silly, Princess

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• ...In Paris she found Magnus, who was living in a garret apartment and paiting, an occupation for which he had no aptitude whatsoever. He let her sleep on a mattress by the window, and in the night, when she woke up screaming for Will, he came and put his arms around her, smelling of turpentine. "The first one is always the hardest," he said. "The first?" "The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Sleep, Night

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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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• Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!

  Anthony Burgess

  Uncles, Angel, Devil

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

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• Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

  Eric Roberts

  Car, Sometimes, Movie Making

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

  Anthony Burgess

  Evil, Inhuman

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

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• laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

  Anthony Burgess

  Law, Orange, Creation

  A Clockwork Orange pt. 1, ch. 2 (1962)

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• I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

  Anthony Burgess

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.127, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

  Voltaire

  God, Spiritual, Imagine

  Attributed to Voltaire in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science: An Anthology" (p. 65), 1982.

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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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• 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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• ... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Orange, Law

  A Clockwork Orange (1962) p. 21

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• ...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Spring, Animal

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• Whatever you are physically,' he said, 'Male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy -- all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are the flame.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Heart, Warrior

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

  Anthony Burgess

  Opposites, Moral, Life Is

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

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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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• 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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• Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Evil, Dystopia

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