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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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Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like mon ...

I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd mo ...

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I was cured all right.

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending ...

How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surpri ...

I was always on my oddy knocky.

Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey ...

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal ...