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It is for the reader to see in the book the nature of the motives of human actions and perhaps learn something too of the motives behind the social forces which judge those actions and which, I take it, we call a system of morality.
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Anthony Burgess |
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her insan sevdigi seyi oldurur. Ceza ogesi budur belki de.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Oglum, oglum. Oglum olunca, yeterince buyuyunce ona butun bunlari aciklayacaktim. Ama sonra anlamayacagini veya hic anlamak istemeyecegini ve yapmis oldugum seyleri yapacagini, evet hatta miyavlayan tekirlerle ve sarmanlarla cevrili zavalli bir moruk sazani oldurecegini ve ona cidden engel olamayacagimi anladim. O da kendi ogluna engel olamayacakti kardeslerim. Dunyanin sonuna kadar filan da boyle gidecekti, durmadan durmadan durmadan, koca..
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Anthony Burgess |
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like candy thunder. Oh,
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Anthony Burgess |
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Ama kotulugun sebebini bulmaya calisarak tirnaklarin kemirmeleri kahkahadan kirilmama yol aciyor kardeslerim. Iyiligin sebebini aradiklari yok, oyleyse niye tersini merak ediyorlar ki? (syf. 35)
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Anthony Burgess |
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If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange-meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you enuch jelly, thou
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Anthony Burgess |
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The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Choice,' rumbled a rich deep goloss. I viddied it belonged to the prison charlie. 'He has no real choice, has he? Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to be seen. He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Madem kimileri iyi insan olmayi seciyor, madem bundan haz aliyorlar, onlara hayatta karismam, kimse de bana karismasin. Ama bana karisiyorlardi. Ustelik kotuluk bireye ozgudur, sizlere, bana ve tek tabancaligimiza ozgudur ve bizleri yaratan bizim Tanri'dir, hem de gururla ve keyifle yaratmistir. Ama birey olmayan seyler kotuluge katlanamazlar, yani devlet ve yargiclar ve okullar kotuluge izin vermezler cunku bireylere izin veremezler. Hem m..
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quotes-about-life
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Anthony Burgess |
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The religious impulse can be very dangerous. It damages, sometimes permanently.
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Anthony Burgess |
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There's the mackerel of the cornflake for you, you dirty reader of filth and nastiness.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Birisi sana vurursa, sen de ona vurursun, degil mi? Siz gaddar serseriler de devlete cok sert vuruyorsunuz, oyleyse devlet niye ayni sekilde karsilik vermesin. Ama yeni bakis acisi buna hayir diyor. Yeni bakis acisina gore, kotuleri iyiye donusturmeliymisiz. (syf. 82)
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Anthony Burgess |
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Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Ma il vero peccato sta nell'intenzione essenziale. Un uomo che non puo scegliere cessa di essere un uomo
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Anthony Burgess |
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Algunas veces no es grato ser bueno, pequeno 6655321. Ser bueno puede llegar a ser algo horrible. Y te lo digo sabiendo que quiza te parezca una afirmacion muy contradictoria. Se que esto me costara muchas noches de insomnio. ?Que quiere Dios? ?El bien o que uno elija el camino del bien? Quizas el hombre que elige el mal es en cierto modo mejor que aquel a quien se le impone el bien. Son problemas profundos y dificiles,pequeno 6655321.
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la-naranja-mecánica
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Anthony Burgess |
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The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
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right-and-wrong
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Anthony Burgess |
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is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Non si chiedono mica qual e la causa della bonta, e allora perche il contrario?
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Anthony Burgess |
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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, operating in your chief character or characters.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith has a contrary answer.
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Anthony Burgess |
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In other words, I heard life going on, and it was a comfort.
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Anthony Burgess |
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But now as I end this story, brothers, I am not young, not no longer, oh no. Alex like groweth up, oh yes.
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Anthony Burgess |
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I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother.
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Anthony Burgess |
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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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Anthony Burgess |
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Being young's a sort of sickness, Measles, mumps or chicken pox. Gather all your toys together, Lock them in a wooden box. That means tolchocks, crasting and dratsing, All of the things that suit a boy. When you build instead of busting, You can start your Ode to Joy. Do not be a clockwork orange, Freedom has a lovely voice. Here is good and there is badness, Look on both, then take your choice. Sweet in juice and hue and aroma,..
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Anthony Burgess |
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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... more badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies,and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But 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... But wha..
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Anthony Burgess |
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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? And I was patronizing the other shop. More, badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they ..
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Anthony Burgess |
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Because I'm too drunk to feel the pain if you hit me, and if you kill me I'll be glad to be dead.
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Anthony Burgess |
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The more sin he sees, the more his belief in Original Sin is confirmed. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed: that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.
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Unfortunately there is so much original sin in us all that we find evil rather attractive. To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Las cosas seran siempre peores, nunca mejores. Que nuevo mundo estan preparandose ustedes.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Hapisteki sairin dedigi gibi, her insan sevdigi seyi oldurur. Ceza ogesi budur belki de. (syf. 100)
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Anthony Burgess |
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Why are we fighting? We're fighting because we're soldiers. That's simple enough, isn't it? For what cause are we fighting? Simple again. We're fighting to protect our country, and, in a wider sense, the whole of the English-Speaking Union. From whom? No concern of ours. Where? Wherever we're sent. Now, Foxe, I trust all this is perfectly clear.
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Anthony Burgess |
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If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange--meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-etre - I go to seek a great perhaps.
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Anthony Burgess |
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Iyi bir insan olmak cok da hos olmayabilir. Iyi bir insan olmak korkunc olabilir. Bunu sana soylerken, kulaga ne kadar celiskili geldigini biliyorum...Tanri ne ister? Tanri iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma secenegini mi? Kotulugu secen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayatilmis bir insandan bazi acilardan daha ustun olabilir mi?
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Anthony Burgess |
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Chelovek, vybravshii Zlo, v opredelennoi stepeni luchshe togo, kogo prinudili k Dobru.
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Anthony Burgess |
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The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals together and see what happens, You get concentrated criminality, crime in the midst of punishment.
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government-corruption
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Anthony Burgess |
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We are always ready to look down on people: it is an abiding pleasure, a poultice for our own sore sense of inferiority.
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Anthony Burgess |
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It stands to reason you've got to have a war. Not because anybody wants it, of course, but because there's an army. An army here and an army there and armies all over the shop. Armies is for wars and wars is for armies. That's only plain common sense.'
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Anthony Burgess |
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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 the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like it, and I wouldn't ever interfere with their pleasures, and so of the other shop. And I was patronizing the other shop. More, badness is of the self, the one, the you or me or our oddy knockies, and..
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cause
evil
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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 is, well-it miraculously ceases to be dull."
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Anthony Burgess |