Anthony Burgess: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Civilised my syphilised yarbles.”

“The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.”

“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.”

“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions, when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.”

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

“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?”

“I was always on my oddy knocky.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I was cured all right.”

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

“How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.”

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

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

“You were not put on this Earth just to get in touch with god”

“Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?”

“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.”

“Power power, everybody like wants power”