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e54faa0
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Well well well. What makes, bratty. What gives, this fine bright middle of the nochy?" He said: "I'll give you just ten seconds to wipe that stupid grin off of your face. Then I want you to listen." "Well, what?" I said, smecking. "Are you not satisfied with beating me near to death and having me spat upon and making me confess to crimes for hours on end and then shoving me among bezoomnies and vonny perverts in that grahzny cell? Have yo..
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Anthony Burgess |
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2a4f972
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That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.
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good-and-evil
laws
violence
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Anthony Burgess |
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85891d2
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I am everyone's friend,'I said.'Except to my enemies.
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Anthony Burgess |
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e4941f0
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You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! I was cured alright.
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Anthony Burgess |
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46c5b6c
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At the age of fifteen he had bought off a twopenny stall in the market a duo-decimo book of recipes, gossip, and homilies, printed in 1605. His stepmother, able to read figures, had screamed at the sight of it when he had proudly brought it home. 1605 was 'the olden days', meaning Henry VIII, the executioner's axe, and the Great Plague. She thrust the book into the kitchen fire with the tongs, yelling that it must be seething with lethal ge..
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humor
london
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Anthony Burgess |
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0ed19d3
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There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.
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Anthony Burgess |
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3f58d47
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You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.
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anthony-burgess
book-quotes
books
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Anthony Burgess |
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a91b7e1
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In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.
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motivation
reason
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Anthony Burgess |
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d30a40a
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You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God. That sort of thing could sap all the strength and the goodness out of a chelloveck.
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Anthony Burgess |
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33bd306
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There she was, welcoming him in, farting prrrrrrp like ten thousand earthquakes, belching arrrp and og like a million volcanoes, while the whole universe roared with approving laughter. She swung tits like sagging moons at him, drew from black teeth an endless snake of bacon-rind, pelted him with balls of ear-wax and snuffled green snot in his direction. The thrones roared and the powers were helpless. Enderby was suffocated by smells: sulp..
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Anthony Burgess |
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0ca2c50
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Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.
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interesting-quotes
life
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Anthony Burgess |
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f89a06a
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The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.
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Anthony Burgess |
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a267658
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Then there was like quiet and we were full of like hate, so smashed what was left to be smashed.
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hate
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Anthony Burgess |
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ccba25b
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As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time - Now it was to be Georgie the general, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless greeding bulldog. But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones, and that the oomny ones use like, inspiration and what Bog sends. Now it was lovely music that came into my aid. There was a window open with the stereo on, and..
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Anthony Burgess |
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6cc6e4a
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But if you eat this chap who's God,' said Llewelyn stoutly, 'how can it be horrible? If it's alright to eat God why is it horrible to eat Jim Whittle?' 'Because,' said Dymphna reasonably, ' if you eat God there's always plenty left. You can't eat God up because God just goes on and on and on and God can't ever be finished...
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humor
religion
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Anthony Burgess |
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5deb1d8
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There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it.
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Anthony Burgess |
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8797ab0
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The essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.
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Anthony Burgess |
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d6138d1
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The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours.
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anthony-burgess
book-quotes
books
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Anthony Burgess |
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8416a7d
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Then I noticed, in all my pain and sickness,what music it was that like crackled and boomed on the sound-track, and it was Ludwig van, the last movement of the Fifth Symphony, and I creeched like bezoomny at that. "Stop!" I creeched. "Stop, you grahzny disgusting sods. It's a sin, that's what it is, a filthy unforgivable sin, you bratchnies!"
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Anthony Burgess |
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342360f
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People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.
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awareness
knowledge
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Anthony Burgess |
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5e9447c
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Goodbye, goodbye, may Bog forgive you for a ruined life." Then I got on to the sill, the music blasting away to my left, and I shut my glazzies and felt the cold wind on my listo, then I jumped."
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Anthony Burgess |
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c00fd7e
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Pero hermanos, este morderse las unas acerca de la causa de la maldad es lo que me da verdadera risa. No les preocupa saber cual es la causa de la bondad, y entonces, ?por que quieren averiguar el otro asunto? Si los liudos (individuos) son buenos es porque les gusta, y ni se me ocurriria interferir en sus placeres, asi que lo mismo deberian hacer en el otro negocio. Y yo soy cliente del otro negocio.
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anthony burgess |
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4a6f1af
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Have you by chance brought some real British tea? Twining's? Or from Jackson's in Piccadilly?
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Anthony Burgess |
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5c13d0c
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There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.
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Anthony Burgess |
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d6f80c0
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Everything ends In Mexico Mexico, An excellent place to die. Come some day and try Mexico.
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Anthony Burgess |
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3d3be76
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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 healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist's innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.
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Anthony Burgess |
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442f631
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As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and fiction, indicating that there's a part of us that desperately wants it. What nonsense writers and filmmakers talk when they say that their terrible visions are meant as a warning. [...] It's sheer wish fulfillment. War... is a culture pattern. It'..
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war
war-fiction
world-war
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Anthony Burgess |
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2c28354
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Of course it was horrible,' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it.
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violence
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Anthony Burgess |
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5760961
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I wanted music very bad this evening, that singing devotchka in the Korova having perhaps started me off. I wanted like a big feast of it before getting my passport stamped, my brothers, at sleep's frontier and the stripy shest lifted to let me through.
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Anthony Burgess |
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c38c377
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A Clockwork Orange is too didactic to be artistic. It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his job to show.
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Anthony Burgess |
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23fed70
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Go on, do me in, you bastard cowards, I don't want to live anyway, not in a stinking world like this one.' I told Dim to lay off a bit then, because it used to interest me sometimes to slooshy what some of these starry decreps had to say about life and the world. I said: 'Oh. And what's stinking about it?
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Anthony Burgess |
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6b171af
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What destroys the dream? What destroys it, eh?..........Disappointment. Disappointment. Disappointment.
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dreams
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Anthony Burgess |
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8531bd3
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And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it was better to get the hit than give it. If that veck had stayed I might even have like presented the other cheek.
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biblical-reference
violence
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Anthony Burgess |
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2bfb8ff
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Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver.
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Anthony Burgess |
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48f30f9
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The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded.
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freedom-of-choice
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Anthony Burgess |
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262920a
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I kept pushing the old noga through the floorboards near, and the Durango 95 ate up the road like spaghetti.
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Anthony Burgess |
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d37b50b
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Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.
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understanding
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Anthony Burgess |
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2453397
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It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there's no law nor order no more.
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Anthony Burgess |
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48ae9e6
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Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense of religion or secular patriotism converts the destructive into the speciously creative.
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Anthony Burgess |
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678236e
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But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?
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Anthony Burgess |
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e1c3bb1
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It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
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decisions
good-and-bad
good-and-evil
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Anthony Burgess |
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0235963
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The thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy - is it worth it when we have undeniable proof, yes, yes, incontrovertible evidence that hell exists?
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anthony-burgess
book-quotes
books
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Anthony Burgess |
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609de0a
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Bueno, que me cuelguen si no es ese gordo maloliente, el cabron Billy y toda la porqueria. ?Como estas, botellon de aceite de cocina barato? Acercate, que te dare una en los yarblocos, si es que los tienes, eunuco grasiento.
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Anthony Burgess |
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94aa9ca
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Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.
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anthony-burgess
book-quotes
books
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Anthony Burgess |