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What's it going to be then, eh?
Anthony Burgess
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Anthony Burgess
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 25
Died: 1993
Died: November 22
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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.
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We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
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Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
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A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.
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In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.
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It'll be your own torture, he said, serious. I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
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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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But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.
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All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
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A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.
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Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
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Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?
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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
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The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.
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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.
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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.
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The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.
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I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.
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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.
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