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Anthony Burgess Quotes

... but we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure Picture Quote #1

Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts Picture Quote #1

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels Picture Quote #1

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse Picture Quote #1

Rome’s just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I’d say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something Picture Quote #1

The heresy of an age of reason,’ or some such slovos [words]. ‘I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong Picture Quote #1

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Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Life’s only choosing when to die. Life’s a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It’s a tremendous relief not to have to choose Picture Quote #1

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- A Clockwork Orange Resucked intro to first full American version 1986 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You don’t say, ‘I’ve done it!’ You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse Picture Quote #1

That’s the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law Picture Quote #1

...We’re a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It’s like having a totally efficient contraceptive Picture Quote #1

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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone Picture Quote #1

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang Picture Quote #1

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed Picture Quote #1

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics Picture Quote #1

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities Picture Quote #1

I start at the beginning, go on to the end, then stop Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts (Anthony Burgess Quotes) The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels (Anthony Burgess Quotes) Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book (Anthony Burgess 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse (Anthony Burgess Quotes) Rome’s just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I’d say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare (Anthony Burgess Quotes) 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 Quotes) The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. (Anthony Burgess Quotes) The heresy of an age of reason,’ or some such slovos [words]. ‘I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong. (Anthony Burgess Quotes) Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited! (Anthony Burgess Quotes) 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 Quotes) Life’s only choosing when to die. Life’s a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It’s a tremendous relief not to have to choose. (Anthony Burgess Quotes) The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- A Clockwork Orange Resucked intro to first full American version 1986 (Anthony Burgess Quotes) 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. (Anthony Burgess Quotes) You don’t say, ‘I’ve done it!’ You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do. (Anthony Burgess Quotes) 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 Quotes) The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse. (Anthony Burgess Quotes) That’s the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law. (Anthony Burgess Quotes) ...We’re a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. (Anthony Burgess Quotes) 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 Quotes) You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It’s like having a totally efficient contraceptive. (Anthony Burgess Quotes) Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone (Anthony Burgess Quotes) The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang (Anthony Burgess Quotes) The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed (Anthony Burgess Quotes) Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics (Anthony Burgess Quotes) Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities (Anthony Burgess Quotes) I start at the beginning, go on to the end, then stop (Anthony Burgess Quotes)

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