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“The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.”

Quote by Anthony Burgess

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Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess, born on February 25, 1917, in Manchester, England, was an accomplished British writer known for his distinctive literary style and profound insights into human psychology. His works spanned various literary genres, including novels, plays, and poetry. Burgess' most famous novel, A Clockwork Orange, is one of the most celebrated works of the 20th century, exploring themes such as free will, morality, and social control. more

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Book:You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

“I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.”

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“Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.”

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Author:Anthony Burgess

“Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.”

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“All novels are experimental.”

Book:Conversations with Anthony Burgess

Source: Conversations with Anthony Burgess

“The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.”

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Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

“Immortality makes sense only when the individual soul can be thought of as merging into a great collective mush of sainthood. If we take anything with us into the next world, it is not what survives in the memories of our relicts.”

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Book:You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess

“Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.”

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