382 Quotes by Anthony Burgess

You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good. And I see that clearly - that business about marginal conditionings. Music and the sexual act, literature and art, all must be a source now not of pleasure but of pain.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

And I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.

Connection was the thing, whether through bed, bottle, grand inquisitorial session.

Translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

You must take your chance boy. The choice has been all yours.

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?

Well, if they would not go to school they must still have their education. And education they had had.