Anthony Burgess citáty
Anthony Burgess
Dátum narodenia: 25. február 1917
Dátum úmrtia: 22. november 1993
Anthony Burgess bol anglický spisovateľ.
Citáty Anthony Burgess
„But what happens when you die?' 'You’re finished with,' Enderby said promptly. 'Done for. And even if you weren’t – well, you die then, gasp your last, then you’re sort of wandering, free of body. You wander around and then you come in contact with a sort of big thing. What is this big thing? God, if you like.“
Fiction, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (1974)
„I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.“
— Anthony Burgess, kniha A Clockwork Orange
Zdroj: A Clockwork Orange
„Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?“
— Anthony Burgess, kniha A Clockwork Orange
Zdroj: A Clockwork Orange
„It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.“
— Anthony Burgess, kniha A Clockwork Orange
Zdroj: A Clockwork Orange
„We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.“
— Anthony Burgess, kniha A Clockwork Orange
Zdroj: A Clockwork Orange

„What I do I do because I like to do.“
— Anthony Burgess, kniha A Clockwork Orange
Varianta: But what I do I do because I like to do.
Zdroj: A Clockwork Orange
„Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?“
— Anthony Burgess, kniha A Clockwork Orange
Zdroj: 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)
Varianta: Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.