The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.
I was cured all right. - Anthony Burgess
I was cured all right.
- Anthony Burgess
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.
I was always on my oddy knocky. - Anthony Burgess
I was always on my oddy knocky.
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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