Top 25 Quotes by Anthony Burgess of 160 - Page 7

Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of

Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.

Anthony Burgess

Memories, Soul, Sainthood

Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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

Anthony Burgess

Brother, Wicked, Milk

Anthony Burgess (2013). “A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition”, p.48, Penguin UK

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

Anthony Burgess

Reading, Book, Substitutes

New York Times Book Review 4 Dec. 1966, p. 74

What's it going to be then, eh?

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess (1998). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.6, A&C Black

And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.

Anthony Burgess

Brother, Real, Winter

Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?

Anthony Burgess

Brother, Laughing, Nails

Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.46, W. W. Norton & Company

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

Anthony Burgess

Intelligent, Intelligence, Intellectual

Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

Anthony Burgess

Responsibility, Guilt, Way