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597d6f3
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Now in those days, my brothers, the teaming up was mostly by fours and fives, these being like auto-teams, for being a comfy number for an auto, and six being the outside limit for gang-size. Sometimes gangs would gang up so as to make like malenky armies for big nightwar, but mostly it was best to roam in these like small numbers.
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Anthony Burgess |
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2ef9438
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Oh, era suntuoso, y la suntuosidad hecha carne. Los trombones crujian como laminas de oro bajo mi cama, y detras de mi golova las trompetas lanzaban lenguas de plata, y al lado de la puerta los timbales me asaltaban las tripas y brotaban otra vez como un trueno de caramelo. Oh, era una maravilla de maravillas. Y entonces, como un ave de hilos entretejidos del mas raro metal celeste, o un vino de plata que flotaba en una nave del espacio, pe..
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éxtasis
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Anthony Burgess |
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c515951
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Bedways is rightways now, so best we go homeways.
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Anthony Burgess |
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385d872
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Ah, 6655321, think on the divine suffering. Meditate on that, my boy.' And all the time he had this rich manny von of Scotch on him, and then he went off to his little cantora to peet some more. So I read all about the scourging and the crowning with thorns and then the cross veshch and all that cal, and I viddied better that there was something in it. While the stereo played bits of lovely Bach I closed my glazzies and viddied myself helpi..
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religion
humor
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Anthony Burgess |
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29c95d1
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An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit by you brutal hooligans, not hit back also? But the new view is to say no. The new view is that we turn the bad into the good. All of which seems to me grossly unjust.
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good-and-evil
government
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Anthony Burgess |
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373b3f2
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Ozgur irade ile secilen kotuluk, organize gucler tarafindan kisiye dayatilan deterministik iyilikten daha mi insancadir ?
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Anthony Burgess |
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68e3370
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You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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ed89949
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The question is whether such a technique can really make a man good. Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
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Anthony Burgess |
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354b9a0
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Me, me, me. How about me? Where do I come into all this? Am I like just some animal or dog? Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?
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nadsat
clockwork-orange
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Anthony Burgess |
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dc917fa
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The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured.
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good-and-evil
violence
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Anthony Burgess |
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7aec95b
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The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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7b91445
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I must give up seeing people, I told myself.
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Anthony Burgess |
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f644520
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And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.
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Anthony Burgess |
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2ba7599
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What gives, O my little sister? Come thou and have a nice lay-down with your malenky droog in this bed.
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Anthony Burgess |
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0e71916
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Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness?
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Anthony Burgess |
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4e87bf2
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And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip-music brrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal.
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Anthony Burgess |
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cefd6a9
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Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.
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procrastination
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Anthony Burgess |
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aefdb12
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Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language
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literature
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Anthony Burgess |
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a0dc965
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Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.
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Anthony Burgess |
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69cd6c9
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When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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685be2a
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I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.
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Anthony Burgess |
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cc8c628
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The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986"
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irony
philosophical
intro
american
introduction
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Anthony Burgess |
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01f7c27
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Ser bueno puede llegar a ser algo horrible.
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anthony burgess |
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dbe45d5
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Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
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Anthony Burgess |
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c8be534
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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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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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4e88e97
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And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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f4f1474
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And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good.
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books
anthony-burgess
book-quotes
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Anthony Burgess |
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25e2ca5
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And then, before he told me, I knew what it was. The old ptitsa who had all the kots and koshkas had passed on to a better world in one of the city hospitals. I'd cracked her a bit too hard, like. Well, well, that was everything. I thought of all those kots and koshkas mewling for moloko and getting none, not any more from their starry forella of a mistress. That was everything. I'd done the lot, now and me still only fifteen.
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Anthony Burgess |
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18e3544
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English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.
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Anthony Burgess |
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be891d3
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What's on them, I wonder. What would be up there on things like that?' I nudged him hard, saying: 'Come, gloopy bastard as thou art. Think thou not on them. There'll be life like down here most likely, with some getting knifed and others doing the knifing.
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Anthony Burgess |
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cace55b
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Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.
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Anthony Burgess |
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2d0e810
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My book was Kennedyan and accepted the notion of moral progress. What was really wanted was a Nixonian book with no shred of optimism in it. Let us have evil prancing on the page... up to the very last line... Such a book would be sensational, and so it is. But I do not think it is it fair picture of human life. I do not think so because, by definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil..
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Anthony Burgess |
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e726514
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There comes a time, however, when violence is seen as juvenile and boring. It is the repartee of the stupid and ignorant.
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Anthony Burgess |
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6681cea
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You'd lay there after you'd drunk the old moloko and then you got the messel that everything all around you was sort of in the past.
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Anthony Burgess |
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79d393b
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Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.
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violence
music
lovemaking
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Anthony Burgess |
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b6c2e37
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Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on like the very light and mysterious nogas, carving the whole litso of the creeching world with my cut-throat britva.
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Anthony Burgess |
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bd70f20
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Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. 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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rights
revolution
party
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Anthony Burgess |
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a9f77b2
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But this one was a writer, not a reader.
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Anthony Burgess |
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901e036
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Is the man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
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Anthony Burgess |
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e130206
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Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.
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life
nadsat
suicidal-thoughts
reform
redemption
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Anthony Burgess |
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089ff85
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One can die but once. Dim died before he was born.
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death-and-dyin
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Anthony Burgess |
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a528748
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To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness.
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clockwork-orange
government-oppression
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Anthony Burgess |
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e120536
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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 all that came out was er er er.
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Anthony Burgess |
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10f0dfa
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Speak up for me, sir, for I'm not so bad. I was led on by the treachery of others.
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Anthony Burgess |