Quotes from Anthony Burgess

They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good.

ÖzgürlüÄŸü günlerimden artakalan bir gölgeydim sadece.

But what was the matter with me these days was that I didn't like care much. It was like something soft getting into me and I could not pony why. What I wanted these days I did not know.

Özgürlük kokusu bahar çiçekleri gibi güzeldi.

But the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

IT WAS THE DEVIL THAT WAS ABROAD and was like ferreting his way into like young innocent flesh, and it was the adult world that could take the responsibility for this with their wars and bombs and nonsense.

The millicents (The police) now got down to making this long statement for me to sign, and I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of the Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.

Time remains the enemy; history must be spatialized. How? By seeing it as a circle, a wheel perpetually turning, the same events recurring again and again.

Nation-states can think in terms of megadeaths, but it's all the average person can do to harbor fantasies of murdering his own boss.

Bizim elimizde kapa??n? açmay? reddettiÄŸimiz bir ÅŸiÅŸe su su varken yan?m?zda susuzluktan ölen birine aÄŸlamak kötülüklerin en büyüÄŸüdür...

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen." ? Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

All we know is that men move, men change, and that the sufferings they undergo—and will themselves to undergo—are both wrong and right.

Kit bowed to all in the manner of a single wave of obeisance and left the chamber in some anger and disquiet. Outside the door he saw Baines waiting for entrance. Kit spat and said: No buboes yet? The devils of the plague know their own. Baines said: &emdash; That is not friendly.

How can one fade out in peace, carrying vast ignorance into a state of total ignorance?

Bu dünyaya s?rt Tanr?'yla baÄŸlant? kurmaya getirilmediniz. Böyle ÅŸeyler insan?n tüm gücünü ve iyiliÄŸini yok edebilir. (syf. 3)

It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem really real when you viddy them on a screen.

If the author of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea and the Nick Adams stories had been an undersized weed, asthmatic or phthisic, living out strong-man fantasies in the literature he produced, he would still be one of the great American writers.

Leave him alone, you grahzny bratchny, and then he began the old whine about how nobody loved him.

The human liver, unless it is Graham Greene's, can take so much and no more.

Nem jobb-e bizonyos értelemben az, aki a rosszat választja, mint az, akire rákényszerítik a jót?

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

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.

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.