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Out Quotes by Anthony Burgess
- The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my…
- It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own…
- ... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit…
- Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.
- And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like…
- If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But…
- Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it,…
- There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,…
- ...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as…
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