Quotes from Anthony Burgess

Tutku korkuyu kovabilen tek güçtür.

It was like as though to get better I had had to get worse.

Com as coisas mudando tão escorre hoje em dia, e todo mundo muito rápido para esquecer, os jornais também não muito lidos.

Hay pecado supongo, pero el castigo fue del todo desproporcionado. Te han convertido en algo que ya no es una criatura humana. Ya no estás en condiciones de elegir. Estás obligado a tener una conducta que la sociedad considera aceptable, y eres una máquina que sólo puede hacer bien.

They were like waking up to what was being done to their malenky persons and saying that they wanted to go home and like I was a wild beast. They looked like they had been in some big bitva, as indeed they had, and were all bruised and pouty. Well, if they would not go to school they must have there education. And education they had had.

Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. . .

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence—the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

I viddied this sloppy glass of beer I had on the table in front of me and felt like all vomity within, so I went 'Aaaaah' and poured all the frothy vonny cal all over the floor. One of the starry ptitsas said: 'Waste not want not.' I said:

Tanr? biz kullar?ndan ne istiyor? Tanr?'n?n istediÄŸi iyilik mi yoksa iyiliÄŸi seçebilme ÅŸans?na sahip olabilmek mi? KötülüÄŸü seçen biri gerçekte iyiliÄŸe zorlanan birinden daha m? geçerli Tanr?'n?n gözünde?

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

But you could viddy a like gleam in his glazzies, because now he would be taking over for this nochy. Power power, everybody like wants power.

So I was put into the bed and still felt bolnoy but could not sleep, but soon I started to feel that soon I might start to feel that I might soon start feeling just a malenky bit better.

One's first memories are often vicarious: one is told that one did something or was involved in something; one dramatizes it and folds the image falsely into the annals of the truly remembered.

Qualcuno deve pur lottare. Abbiamo una grande tradizione di libertà da difendere. Io non appartengo a nessun partito. Quando vedo l'infamia cerco di combatterla. I partiti non significano nulla, la tradizione di libertà è tutto. Oh, certo, la gente comune non se ne preoccupa. Sono pronti a vendere la libertà per una vita più tranquilla. è per questo che devono essere pungolati, pungolati.

I see you have them books under your arm, brother. It is indeed a rare pleasure these days to come across someone who still reads, brother.

Pfffrrrummmp. And a very happy New Year to you too, Mr Enderby!

History is a wheel. This sort of world can't go on for ever either.

Mas eu não conseguia deixar de me sentir um pouquinho decepcionado com as coisas do jeito que eram naquela época. Nada contra o que lutar de verdade. Tudo era fácil como tirar doce de criança. Mas a noite ainda era mesmo uma criança.

Perhaps the ultimate act of evil is dehumanization, the killing of the soul

Non si chiedono mica qual è la causa della bontà, e allora perchè il contrario?

Parem de me tratar feito uma coisa que é só pra ser usada. Não sou um idiota sobre o qual vocês possam se impor […]

Le bien est un choix. Tout homme incapable de choisir cesse d'être un homme.

A human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange.

Hayat fazla a??r gelmeye ba?lad?.