Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
