Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.
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.
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.
What's it going to be then, eh? - Anthony Burgess
What's it going to be then, eh?
Hitler was a teetotalitarian. - Anthony Burgess
Hitler was a teetotalitarian.
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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