The best Quotes by Anthony Burgess

The best Quotes by Anthony Burgess

John Anthony Burgess Wilson (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer.

When we pray we admit defeat.
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If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.
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We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.
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A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a p-rnographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance. I once found a small boy masturbating in the presence of the Victorian steel-engraving in a family Bible.
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If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.
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It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.
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It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.
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The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
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When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
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We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
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Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
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