The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch.
I was cured all right. - Anthony Burgess
I was cured all right.
- Anthony Burgess
I was always on my oddy knocky. - Anthony Burgess
I was always on my oddy knocky.
But what I do I do because I like to do. - Anthony Burgess
But what I do I do because I like to do.
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. - Anthony Burgess
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
Hitler was a teetotalitarian. - Anthony Burgess
Hitler was a teetotalitarian.
What's it going to be then, eh? - Anthony Burgess
What's it going to be then, eh?
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. - Anthony Burgess
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. - Anthony Burgess
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world. - Anthony Burgess
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
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