Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned. — Anthony Burgess Bird Copy Share Image
I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist. — Anthony Burgess Art Copy Share Image
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it. — Anthony Burgess Fearless Copy Share Image
“Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-etre - I go to seek a great perhaps.” — Anthony Burgess 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
Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing. — Anthony Burgess Beckett 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
Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world. — Anthony Burgess Handicaps Copy Share Image
“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice. Evil… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For… — Anthony Burgess Aids 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
“There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.” — Anthony Burgess Fiction 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
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
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
And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. — Anthony Burgess Kissing Copy Share Image
“What gives, O my little sister? Come thou and have a nice lay-down with your malenky droog in this bed.” — Anthony Burgess Little sister 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
The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. — Anthony Burgess Adults Copy Share Image
I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because… — Anthony Burgess Death Copy Share Image
“We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.” — Anthony Burgess British 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
“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
