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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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laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cann ...

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's ...

Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear run ...

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle tha ...

It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to ...

It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the ...

But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all ...

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure a ...

That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh ...

I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, beca ...

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little o ...

What's it going to be then, eh?

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.