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I was always on my oddy knocky.

I was always on my oddy knocky.
– Anthony Burgess

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  1. You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right. – Anthony Burgess
  2. A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth. – Anthony Burgess
  3. A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth. – Anthony Burgess
  4. You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn’t care. – Anthony Burgess
  5. Well, everything’s a lesson, isn’t it? Learning all the time, as you could say. – Anthony Burgess
  6. The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress. – Anthony Burgess
  7. When we’re healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. – Anthony Burgess
  8. And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good. – Anthony Burgess
  9. In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. – Anthony Burgess
  10. Dreams go by opposites I was once told. – Anthony Burgess
  11. The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it. – Anthony Burgess
  12. A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life. – Anthony Burgess
  13. It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. – Anthony Burgess
  14. I like nothing better in this world than a good clean book, brother. – Anthony Burgess
  15. It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen. – Anthony Burgess
  16. The heresy of an age of reason,’ or some such slovos [words]. ‘I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong. – Anthony Burgess
  17. There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly. – Anthony Burgess
  18. A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey. – Anthony Burgess
  19. Oh? And what’s so stinking about it?. – Anthony Burgess
  20. Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language – Anthony Burgess
  21. There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it. – Anthony Burgess
  22. You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God. – Anthony Burgess
  23. The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet. – Anthony Burgess
  24. Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up. – Anthony Burgess
  25. Then there was like quiet and we were full of like hate, so smashed what was left to be smashed. – Anthony Burgess
  26. I can’t accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. – Anthony Burgess
  27. We’re a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will. – Anthony Burgess
  28. Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness. – Anthony Burgess
  29. Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers? – Anthony Burgess
  30. …I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless… – Anthony Burgess
  31. To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. – Anthony Burgess
  32. The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured. – Anthony Burgess
  33. That’s the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law. – Anthony Burgess
  34. Of course it was horrible,’ smiled Dr. Branom. ‘Violence is a very horrible thing. That’s what you’re learning now. Your body is learning it. – Anthony Burgess
  35. Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. – Anthony Burgess
  36. Happiness is not always the answer let the other emotions out is sometimes what is needed – Michael Burgess
  37. The thing he said aloud did not succeed. – Tony Burgess
  38. Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius. – Gloria Burgess
  39. And then I noticed the dandelions. – Melvin Burgess
  40. Life is precious, and in the grand song of the universe, life is short. There is much to be done. – Gloria Burgess

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