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“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 I knew he would not understand or would not want to understand at all and would do all the veshches [things] I had done…and I would not be able to really stop him. And nor would he be able to stop his own son, brothers. And so it would itty on to like the end of the world.”

Anthony Burgess

Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

World , Understanding

“But what happens when you die?' 'You’re finished with,' Enderby said promptly. 'Done for. And even if you weren’t – well, you die then, gasp your last, then you’re sort of wandering, free of body. You wander around and then you come in contact with a sort of big thing. What is this big thing? God, if you like.”

Anthony Burgess

Fiction, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (1974)

God

“Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

Pleasure
Anthony Burgess quote: “What I do I do because I like to do.”

“What I do I do because I like to do.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Variant: But what I do I do because I like to do.
Source: A Clockwork Orange

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

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

Evil

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”

Anthony Burgess

Non-Fiction, Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965)
Variant: Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

Food , Soul

“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.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Variant: 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.
Source: A Clockwork Orange

Life , Evil

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”

Anthony Burgess

"The Ball is Free to Roll"
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Source: Homage To Qwert Yuiop: Essays

World

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Variant: When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Source: A Clockwork Orange

“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

World , Color

“What's it going to be then, eh?”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

God , Way

“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.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

Love , God , Appearance , Evil

“If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.”

Anthony Burgess book The Wanting Seed

Source: The Wanting Seed

Disappointment , Personality

“This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange