Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English writer and composer. From relatively modest beginnings in a Catholic family in Manchester, he eventually became one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 February 1917
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littles violence energy
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.
life-and-love dogma
Every dogma has its day.
life-is wells bits
Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.
evil clockwork inhuman
It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
design culture matter
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
education art two
The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.
pay bills gas
Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.
life-is terrible courses
Life is, of course, terrible.
orange evil lovely
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.
somewhere-else ghost life-is
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
vocabulary earth flesh
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.
imagination records language
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
uplifting philosophy literature
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
two modern kenneth
John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.