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Anthony Burgess

John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (/?b??rd??s/; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) – 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

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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Cur ...

Every dogma has its day.

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin ...

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth mo ...

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constr ...

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim ...

Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!

Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeti ...

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

Literature is all, or mostly, about sex.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is ...

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.