Anthony Burgess Quotes - Page 5

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• 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, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.

  Anthony Burgess

  Pain, Sleep, Forever

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

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• All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Somewhere Else, Atheism

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• You have no idea how pleasant it is not to have any future. It's like having a totally efficient contraceptive.

  Anthony Burgess

  Future, Ideas, Pleasant

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “Honey for the Bears”, p.187, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

  Anthony Burgess

  Thinking, Healthy, Get Better

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.117, Penguin UK

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• Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Ignorance, Stupidity

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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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  World, Violence, Life Is

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

  Anthony Burgess

  Running, Cutting, Light

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

  Anthony Burgess

  Orange, Three, Alex

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Heaven, Lovely

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

  Anthony Burgess

  Orange, Pleasure, Wells

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

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• The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

  Anthony Burgess

  Slang, Downtrodden, Creator

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• I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.

  Anthony Burgess

  Inspiration, Thinking, Lovely

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

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• The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school.

  Anthony Burgess

  Morning, Brother, Real

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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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

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Orange, Giving

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• ...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 being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Spring, Animal

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Adults, Relation

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• Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

  Anthony Burgess

  Rome, Cities, Atheism

  1963 Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.1.

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• I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Mean, Thinking

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “One Hand Clapping”, p.91, Profile Books

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• But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there. ... And all that cal.

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  Sweet, Brother, Stars

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

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• The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Writing, Six

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• But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

  Anthony Burgess

  Feelings, Energy, Evening

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

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• Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

  Anthony Burgess

  Nature, Silly, Intelligent

  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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• We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

  Anthony Burgess

  Children, Son, Civilization

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• I was cured all right.

  Anthony Burgess

  A Clockwork Orange pt. 3, ch. 6 (1962)

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• It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

  Anthony Burgess

  Serious, Madness, Said

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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