Quotes by Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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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. — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insincerity was clearly to — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
The heresy of an age of reason,' or some such slovos [words]. 'I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong. — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Oh? And what's so stinking about it?. — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
There was no trust anywhere in the world, O my brothers, the way I could see it. — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God. — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up. — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Then there was like quiet and we were full of like hate, so smashed what was left to be smashed. — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
An eye for an eye, I say. If someone hits you you hit back, do you not? Why then should not the State, very severely hit — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
It may not be nice to be good, 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-con — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
What's all this about sin, eh?''That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethov — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive. — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like o — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals together and see what h — Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange