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Total quotes: 7

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Anthony Burgess

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Birthday: February 25, 1917

Death: November 22, 1993

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Autobiographer, Science Fiction Writer, Journalist, Translator, Literary Critic

Total quotes: 7

“It’s always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you’re going.”

— Anthony Burgess, Origins

Tagged: Stay Grounded, Be Humble, Inspirational, Words To Live By

“But what I do I do because I like to do.”

— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

Tagged: Wants, interests, Passion

“It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.”

— Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

Tagged: first lines of books

“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”

— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

Tagged: Good, Evil, humanity

“'What's it going to be then, eh?'”

— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

Tagged: first lines of books

“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, A Clockwork Orange

Tagged: Banned Books

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

Tagged: Writing, Writers

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