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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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And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're ...

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectu ...

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as ...

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from ...

He said it was artificial respiration but now I find I'm to have his child.

But if you eat this chap who's God,' said Llewelyn stoutly, 'how can it be horrible? If it's alright ...

Perhaps, all these years, the historiographers had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral, ...

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

Our subject is, you see, impelled towards the good by, paradoxically, being impelled towards evil. T ...

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of a ...

That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.

The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but ...

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

And what, brothers, I had to escape into sleep from then was the horrible and wrong feeling that it ...

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cu ...