Anthony Burgess quotes
Anthony Burgess was a British novelist, critic, and composer, best known for his dystopian novel "A Clockwork Orange." His works are celebrated for their linguistic creativity and exploration of moral and philosophical themes. He is regarded as one of the most inventive literary figures of the twentieth century. Here are 330 of his quotes:
...youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chellovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grrr grrr grrr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines.
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
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Occupation: English Writer
Born: February 25, 1917
Died: November 22, 1993
Quotes count: 330
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