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“She was very badly raped, you see! We were assaulted by a gang of vicious, young, hoodlums in this house! In this very room you are sitting in now! I was left a helpless cripple, but for her the agony was too great! The doctor said it was pneumonia; because it happened some months later! During a flu epidemic! The doctors told me it was pneumonia, but I knew what it was! A VICTIM OF THE MODERN AGE! Poor, poor girl!”
— Mr. Alexander, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Rape, hoodlums, modern world, Flu
“Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear?

Alex: As an unmuddied lake, friend. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, friend.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: clear, unmuddied lake
“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 for ever, and ever and ever.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: suicide attempt, cruel world, Pain
“Alex: Hey dad, there's a strange fella sittin' on the sofa munchy-wunching lomticks of toast.

Dad: That's Joe. He lives here now. The lodger, that's what he is. He rents your room.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: surrogate son
“I jumped, O my brothers, and I fell hard but I did not snuff it, oh no. if I had snuffed it, I would not be here to tell what I have told.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: suicide attempt
“We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: shagged, fagged, fashed, Tired
“What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Music, sound system
“I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Pain, sickness, Beethoven, Beethoven's Ninth
“As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time. So now it was to be Georgie the general, saying what we should do and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless greeding bulldog. But suddenly I viddied that thinking was 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. There was a window open with the stereo on and I viddied right at once what to do.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: inspiration, Music
“Ho, ho, ho! Well, if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: yarbles, balls, poison, insults
“Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Beethoven, bliss, Gorgeousness
“No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: the old in-out
“There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultraviolence.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Ultraviolence
“I was cured, all right!”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: cured, atavism
“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Viddy, Colors
“Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: bliss, Heaven, Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven, Beethoven's 9th
“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Good, Evil, humanity
“But what I do I do because I like to do.”
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Wants, interests, Passion
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Writing, Writers
“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
“'What's it going to be then, eh?'”
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: first lines of books
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