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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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As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at ap ...

But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me int ...

And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve ...

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to ...

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. I ...

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperience ...

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, ...

...but we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some ...

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

I didn't think; I experimented.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn ...

“Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use th ...

“If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others ...