There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we… — Anthony Burgess Alex 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, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing… — Anthony Burgess Badness 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
If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina.… — Anthony Burgess Art 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 Religion Copy Share Image
“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we… — 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
“Oh bliss, bliss and heaven... Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh... And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing. — Anthony Burgess Books Copy Share Image
“You're a romantic,” said Crabbe. “You expect too much. Reality's always dull, you know, but when we see that it's all there… — Anthony Burgess Reality Copy Share Image
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in… — Anthony Burgess Abiding 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
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
“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
One goes on writing partly because it is the only available way of earning a living. It is a hard way and… — Anthony Burgess Apprenticeship Copy Share Image
Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited! — Anthony Burgess Angel Copy Share Image
Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure… — Anthony Burgess Activity Copy Share Image
“Go on, do me in, you bastard cowards, I don't want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this one.'… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. — Anthony Burgess Laughter Copy Share Image
...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. — Anthony Burgess Believe 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
