It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. — Anthony Burgess Evil Copy Share Image
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. — Anthony Burgess Laughter Copy Share Image
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. — Anthony Burgess Absorbing Copy Share Image
“You were not put on this Earth just to get in touch with god” — Anthony Burgess A-clockwork-orange Copy Share Image
The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. — Anthony Burgess Dangerous Copy Share Image
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. — Anthony Burgess Believe Copy Share Image
As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse. — Anthony Burgess Aim Copy Share Image
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. — Anthony Burgess Constructive Copy Share Image
What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.” — Anthony Burgess Beauty Copy Share Image
It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where… — Anthony Burgess Celebrate Copy Share Image
“We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.” — Anthony Burgess British Copy Share Image
This is great art, we've been told this by the great pundits of our age. And in consequence why should we bother… — Anthony Burgess Age Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects… — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly… — Anthony Burgess Fiction Copy Share Image
If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of… — Anthony Burgess Appearance Copy Share Image
And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy… — Anthony Burgess Afternoon Copy Share Image
A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past,… — Anthony Burgess Acceptable Copy Share Image
“Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense… — Anthony Burgess Destruction Copy Share Image
“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova… — Anthony Burgess A-clockwork-orange Copy Share Image
“But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad… — Anthony Burgess Big mac Copy Share Image
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it… — Anthony Burgess Books 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 Be good 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 Appropriate Copy Share Image
I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your… — Anthony Burgess Books Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Allegory Copy Share Image
“Now in those days, my brothers, the teaming up was mostly by fours and fives, these being like auto-teams, for being a… — Anthony Burgess Gang Copy Share Image
“My book was Kennedyan and accepted the notion of moral progress. What was really wanted was a Nixonian book with no shred… — Anthony Burgess Books Copy Share Image
