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Anthony BurgessAnthony Burgess słynne cytaty
„Dobroć to kwestia wyboru. Kiedy człowiek nie może wybierać, to nie jest już ludzkie.”
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Anthony Burgess: Cytaty po angielsku

“What I do I do because I like to do.”
Wariant: But what I do I do because I like to do.
Źródło: 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)
Wariant: 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?”
Źródło: A Clockwork Orange
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
Źródło: A Clockwork Orange
“I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.”
Źródło: A Clockwork Orange
“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”
Źródło: A Clockwork Orange
Fiction, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (1974)
Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Wariant: 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.
Źródło: 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)
Źródło: Homage To Qwert Yuiop: Essays
“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
Wariant: When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Źródło: A Clockwork Orange
“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.”
Źródło: A Clockwork Orange
“What's it going to be then, eh?”
Źródło: Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
“If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.”
Źródło: The Wanting Seed
“This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.”
Źródło: A Clockwork Orange
“Civilised my syphilised yarbles.”
Źródło: A Clockwork Orange
“I was always on my oddy knocky.”
Źródło: A Clockwork Orange
“We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.”
Źródło: The Wanting Seed