Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written. — Anthony Burgess Behinds Copy Share Image
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. — Anthony Burgess Gray Copy Share Image
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. — Anthony Burgess Left alone Copy Share Image
This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it. — Anthony Burgess Cinema 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
“Their hair belonged to some middle crinal zone between aseptic nord and latinindian jetwalled lousehouse.” — Anthony Burgess Hair Belonged Copy Share Image
...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. — Anthony Burgess Essentials Copy Share Image
“It’s a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there’s no law nor… — Anthony Burgess World Copy Share Image
“Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had.” — Anthony Burgess Education Copy Share Image
“Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you enuch jelly, thou” — Anthony Burgess Humor-inspirational Copy Share Image
“And I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of Good then I'm… — Anthony Burgess Good vs evil Copy Share Image
“There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.” — Anthony Burgess Crime Copy Share Image
It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. — Anthony Burgess Bird Copy Share Image
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never… — Anthony Burgess Americans Copy Share Image
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. -----… — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically… — Anthony Burgess Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
“Then I wanted to sick up the gluey pie I'd had before the start of the evening, But I couldn't stand the… — Anthony Burgess Alex Copy Share Image
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… — Anthony Burgess Cold Copy Share Image
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly… — Anthony Burgess Alright 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… — Anthony Burgess Character Copy Share Image
“(James Joyce, in conversation with Carl Jung:)"Literary artists know more about the human mind than you fellers have a hope in hell… — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
“You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a… — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to… — Anthony Burgess Barren Copy Share Image
“But poor old Dim kept looking up at the stars and planets and the Luna with his rot wide open like a… — Anthony Burgess Moon Copy Share Image
“As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time - Now it was… — Anthony Burgess Time Copy Share Image
“At the age of fifteen he had bought off a twopenny stall in the market a duo-decimo book of recipes, gossip, and… — Anthony Burgess Books Copy Share Image
“There she was, welcoming him in, farting prrrrrrp like ten thousand earthquakes, belching arrrp and og like a million volcanoes, while the… — Anthony Burgess Enderby Suffocated Copy Share Image
“One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy dirty old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his… — Anthony Burgess A-clockwork-orange Copy Share Image
