One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. Anthony Burgess More Quotes by Anthony Burgess More Quotes From Anthony Burgess If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. Anthony Burgess unseenbelievechrist I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. Anthony Burgess namesdesirewriting Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. Anthony Burgess designmatterculture But what I do I do because I like to do. Anthony Burgess There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. Anthony Burgess vocabularyfleshearth What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. Anthony Burgess bordersmeanart With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry. Anthony Burgess cottagesagentsliterature The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse. Anthony Burgess suicidalmusicalessence ...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man. Anthony Burgess essentialsrealmen All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. Anthony Burgess atheismsomewhere-elselife The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world. Anthony Burgess practicefictionideas But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure. Anthony Burgess eveningenergyfeelings Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. Anthony Burgess creativeoppositespeople John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced. Anthony Burgess kennethmoderntwo Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Anthony Burgess choicesevilorder I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong. Anthony Burgess clockwork Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever. Anthony Burgess painforeversleep Civilised my syphilised yarbles. Anthony Burgess civilised Literature is all, or mostly, about sex. Anthony Burgess literaturewritingsex Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou. Anthony Burgess oilboysart
