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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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“When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract”

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Each man kills the thing he loves.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer ...

Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on ...

Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that ...

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vu ...

Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thy g ...

John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has ...

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a mea ...