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“Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“Civilised my syphilised yarbles.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“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?”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“I was always on my oddy knocky.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.”

Anthony Burgess book The Wanting Seed

Source: The Wanting Seed

“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 book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there and your old droog Alex all on his oddy knocky seeking like a mate. And all that cal. A terrible grahzny vonny world, really, O my brothers. And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

“I was cured all right.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Variant: To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.
Source: A Clockwork Orange

“I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“Power power, everybody like wants power”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange
Variant: Power, power, everybody like wants power