“English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.” — Anthony Burgess Expressive Copy Share Image
“The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must… — Anthony Burgess Common people Copy Share Image
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the… — Anthony Burgess Ending Copy Share Image
“Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.” — Anthony Burgess Nightmares Copy Share Image
As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused. — Anthony Burgess Aging Copy Share Image
“Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.” — Anthony Burgess Feeling Copy Share Image
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a… — Anthony Burgess Bath Copy Share Image
“Is the man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?” — Anthony Burgess Better 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
“And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to… — Anthony Burgess Anti-violence Copy Share Image
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a… — Anthony Burgess Bold Copy Share Image
I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt… — Anthony Burgess Abandonment 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 Book Copy Share Image
And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky,… — Anthony Burgess Blood Copy Share Image
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are… — Anthony Burgess Chapters Copy Share Image
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess Adultery Copy Share Image
“And then, before he told me, I knew what it was. The old ptitsa who had all the kots and koshkas had… — Anthony Burgess Better world 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 Accepting 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
“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise… — Anthony Burgess Gold and silver Copy Share Image
“They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because… — Anthony Burgess Badness Copy Share Image
“Yes yes yes, there it was. Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being in a way like it might… — Anthony Burgess Computers Copy Share Image
Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy. — Anthony Burgess America Copy Share Image
“I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it… — Anthony Burgess Immoral Copy Share Image
“In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.” — Anthony Burgess Freudian Copy Share Image
“We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.” — Anthony Burgess Energy Copy Share Image
I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense. — Anthony Burgess Human nature Copy Share Image
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? — Anthony Burgess Colonialism Copy Share Image
“The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do… — Anthony Burgess Age of reason Copy Share Image
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk… — Anthony Burgess Earth Copy Share Image
“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.” — Anthony Burgess Death 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 Choices Copy Share Image
“Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for… — Anthony Burgess Bible Copy Share Image
A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily… — Anthony Burgess Car Copy Share Image
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen. — Anthony Burgess Color Copy Share Image
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. — Anthony Burgess Agents Copy Share Image
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. — Anthony Burgess Intellectual Copy Share Image
“Goodbye, goodbye, may Bog forgive you for a ruined life." Then I got on to the sill, the music blasting away to… — Anthony Burgess Cold wind Copy Share Image
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned… — Anthony Burgess Cabbage Copy Share Image
I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have… — Anthony Burgess Accept Copy Share Image
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