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Anthony Burgess
Age: 76 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 25
Died: 1993
Died: November 22
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John Anthony Burgess Wilson
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And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.
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What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art.
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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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The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- A Clockwork Orange Resucked intro to first full American version 1986
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Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.
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A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.
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We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.
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Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.
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I start at the beginning, go on to the end, then stop.
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A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.
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Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
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Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance music, for instance.
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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's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.
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All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
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How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.
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Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?
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Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
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Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.
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It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.
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