Quotes About Burgess

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.

There's an end-of-empire atmosphere about Burgess; of high Victorian imperialism fading away in a remote outpost.

The Right to an Answer is a further anatomy of the Britain Burgess personally found waiting for him on his return from the East.

people, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Bob Burgess, after the tall man with the tasseled scarf turned down a side

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit?

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.

It'll be your own torture, he said, serious. I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

Horrorshow is right, friend. A real show of horrors.

In a dead white field an untethered goat gave them sardonic greeting.

Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

odorous as a crateful of bad eggs with the miasma of original sin.

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.

Some fifteen to twenty Burgess species cannot be allied with any known group, and should probably be classified as separate phyla. Magnify some of them beyond the few centimeters of their actual size, and you are on the set of a science-fiction film...

Even on my worst days... the influx of joy that I get from interactions with fans... is a treat.

Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

We do not have a racial crisis; we have an ideology crisis. We have socialists, Marxists, and liberals who have hijacked my race.

Where readers of Murdoch can begin a new novel with a quiet confidence, opening a Burgess book is an exercise in anxiety: what the devil is he up to this time?

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

Tar had a reason, plenty of reasons. The latest were painted on his face, too.