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Anthony Burgess: Citations en anglais
“What I do I do because I like to do.”
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Variante: But what I do I do because I like to do.
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
Non-Fiction, Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965)
Variante: Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.”
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Fiction, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (1974)
Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Variante: 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
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
"The Ball is Free to Roll"
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Source: Homage To Qwert Yuiop: Essays
“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Variante: 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 livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“What's it going to be then, eh?”
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.”
Anthony Burgess livre The Wanting Seed
Source: The Wanting Seed
“This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.”
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“Civilised my syphilised yarbles.”
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
“We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.”
Anthony Burgess livre The Wanting Seed
Source: The Wanting Seed
Anthony Burgess livre L'Orange mécanique
Source: A Clockwork Orange
