Quotes from Anthony Burgess

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

Es tan inhumano ser totalmente bueno como totalmente malvado. Lo importante es la elección moral.

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When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory.

Tanr? ne ister? Tanr? iyilik mi ister yoksa iyi olma seçeneÄŸini mi? KötülüÄŸü seçen bir insan, kendisine iyilik dayat?lm?? bir insandan baz? aç?lardan daha üstün olabilir mi? (syf. 84)

Hapisteki ÅŸairin dediÄŸi gibi, her insan sevdiÄŸi ÅŸeyi öldürür. Ceza öÄŸesi budur belki de. (syf. 100)

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

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 will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded—

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?

I was cured alright.

Besame los yarblocos- El lerdo

Bugünlerde kitap okuyan birini görmek gerçekten göz yaÅŸart?c?.

Koltuk alt?nda kitaplar ta??d???n? görüyorum kardeÅŸim. Bugünlerde hâlâ kitap okuyan birine rastlamak gerçekten nadide bir zevk kardeÅŸim.

Oh, I'm dying,' I like moaned. 'Oh, I have a ghastly pain in my side. Appendicitis, it is. Ooooooh.' 'Appendy shitehouse,' grumbled this veck.

Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-etre - I go to seek a great perhaps.

Violence makes violence

It is the novelist's innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.

Well, sir, it has come through on the pipes that a consignment of cocaine has arrived by irregular means and that a cell somewhere along Tier 5 is to be the centre of distribution.' I made all that up as I went along, like I made up so many of these stories, but the prison charlie was very grateful, saying: 'Good, good, good. I shall pass that on to Himself,' this being what he called the Governor

Nincs választási lehetÅ'sége, vagy igen? Az önérdek, a testi fájdalomtól való rettegés bírta rá erre a groteszk megalázkodásra. A dolog Å'szintétlensége nyilvánvaló volt. Többé nem követ el rosszat. De nem is lesz lehetÅ'sége erkölcsi választásra.

Well, then she had to be tolchoked proper with one of the weights for the scales, and then a fair tap with a crowbar they had for opening cases, and that brought out red like an old friend. So we had her down on the floor and a rip of her platties for fun and a gentle bit of the boot to stop her moaning.

Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

Herhangi bir ÅŸeyi s?n?rland?rmak çok güçtür. Dünyay?, yaÅŸam? s?n?rland?ramay?z. Ä°yi kabul ettiÄŸimiz, tatl?, güzel dediÄŸimiz birçok davran??ta, duyguda yabanl?k vard?r. ÖrneÄŸin tutkuda; müzikte.

What does God want? Does God want woodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?