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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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.
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Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
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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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When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.
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Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?
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When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract
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There is lots of scope for European banking deals.
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
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Civilised my syphilised yarbles.
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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.
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Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.
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A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.