And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.
Hitler was a teetotalitarian. - Anthony Burgess
Hitler was a teetotalitarian.
- Anthony Burgess
I was cured all right. - Anthony Burgess
I was cured all right.
I was always on my oddy knocky. - Anthony Burgess
I was always on my oddy knocky.
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.
But what I do I do because I like to do. - Anthony Burgess
But what I do I do because I like to do.
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. - Anthony Burgess
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
What's it going to be then, eh? - Anthony Burgess
What's it going to be then, eh?
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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