Anthony Burgess - Man Quotes

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He would milk the white man.... The white man had more money than sense.

Anthony Burgess

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Anthony Burgess

Trade and gambling and a woman occasionally — that was a man's life.

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A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book... I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

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It is generally felt that the educated man or woman should be able to read Dante, Goethe, Baudelaire, Lorca in the original — with, anyway, the crutch of a translation.

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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit out loud in a sort of very high type preaching goloss: '- The attempt to impose upon a man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my swordpen-

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Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

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