Anthony Burgess Quotes - Page 4

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• All novels are experimental.

  Anthony Burgess

  Fiction, Novel

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mind, Afternoon, Awareness

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Two, Years

  "English Literature: A Survey for Students". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1958.

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• Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Friday, Sunday

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• Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Retirement, Peace

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

  Anthony Burgess

  Civilised

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition”, p.54, Penguin UK

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• Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Behinds, Has Beens

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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.

  Anthony Burgess

  Interesting, Choices, Relief

  Anthony Burgess (1996). “The Wanting Seed”, p.234, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.

  Anthony Burgess

  Spit

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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 guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. 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 around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wise, Brother, Wine

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• With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

  Anthony Burgess

  Cottages, Agents, Literature

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Looks, Fiction

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life Is, Wells, Bits

  Anthony Burgess (1980). “Earthly powers”, Simon & Schuster

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• It may not be nice to be good, little 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? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.

  Anthony Burgess

  Nice, Night, Men

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• If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. 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.

  Anthony Burgess

  Depth, Abiding, Behaviour

  "The Wanting Seed".

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• The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

  Anthony Burgess

  Suicidal, Essence, Musical

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• The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

  Anthony Burgess

  Reading, Book, Substitutes

  New York Times Book Review 4 Dec. 1966, p. 74

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• I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Thinking, Priests

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

  Anthony Burgess

  Fashion, Men, Novelty

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!

  Anthony Burgess

  Uncles, Angel, Devil

  Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess (1972). “A clockwork orange”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

  Anthony Burgess

  Kissing, Profound, Stories

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.204, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Boys, Oil

  "A Clockwork Orange". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1962.

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• Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

  Anthony Burgess

  Class, Differences, Theatre

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• Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

  Anthony Burgess

  Opposites, Moral, Life Is

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.

  Anthony Burgess

  Two, Modern, Kenneth

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