Anthony Burgess Quotes - Page 7

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.

  Anthony Burgess

  Divorce, America, Auras

  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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• A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

  Anthony Burgess

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Intellectual

  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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• This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

  Anthony Burgess

  Real, Film, Ifs

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.112, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Each man kills the thing he loves.

  Anthony Burgess

  Broken Heart, Betrayal, Men

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I was always on my oddy knocky.

  Anthony Burgess

  Anthony Burgess (1998). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.38, A&C Black

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• As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

  Anthony Burgess

  Literature, World, Apocalypse

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• He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

  Anthony Burgess

  Children, Said, Respiration

  'Inside Mr Enderby' (1963) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.

  Anthony Burgess

  Blessed, Bird, Tree

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• Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Soul, Sainthood

  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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• 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?

  Anthony Burgess

  Brother, Laughing, Nails

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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