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Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess

English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993)

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Jabuti 1997Prêmio Alphonsus de Guimaraens 1996

Some Poems

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
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. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
Anthony Burgess: homosexuality is unnatural
Anthony Burgess Discusses A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Anthony Burgess — Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake (1973)
Anthony Burgess on modernism
Anthony Burgess: the happy society is not the human ideal
Face to Face - Anthony Burgess (21st March 1989)
Anthony Burgess on Jimmy Savile
Anthony Burgess on His Writing Process
Anthony Burgess's whoring habit
Anthony Burgess on Seeing A Clockwork Orange
The trouble with Graham Greene — by Anthony Burgess
The Confession of Anthony Burgess (Belgium, 1987)
Andrea Dworkin and Anthony Burgess | After Dark | Late-night live talk show | 1988
Anthony Burgess on Joyce's Finnegans Wake
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Young
Anthony Burgess documentary
Anthony Burgess: the British state broadcaster's take
Anthony Burgess in Malaya
Anthony Burgess on some Irish writers
Anthony Burgess on The Dick Cavett Show, 1971
1985 by Anthony Burgess--a message from the future past
A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess & Malcom McDowell interview
Anthony Burgess: why I quit England
Anthony Burgess on A Clockwork Orange
Ten Great Writers Seminar with Melvyn Bragg, Anthony Burgess, Malcolm Bradbury and others (1987)
Anthony Burgess, Jerzy Kosinski, Barbara Howard, Dick Cavett 1974
The Burgess Variations (1/2)
Anthony Burgess interviewed
Anthony Burgess: the young know nothing
What Is the Writer Saying? with Anthony Burgess (1988)
Anthony Burgess on the violence of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess reads "A CLOCKWORK ORANGE" (1973)
ANTHONY BURGESS TRA ORWELL E MALTHUS. "1984 & 1985" E "IL SEME INQUIETO"
A Question of Fate - Stanley Kubrick vs Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess's verdict on W. Somerset Maugham
Anthony Burgess on W. Somerset Maugham the shit
Anthony Burgess on 'creative writing' courses
Anthony Burgess Reads John Keats (ABBA ABBA)
Anthony Burgess Speaks: 1985 (1)
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess on James Bond
Anthony Burgess plugs autobiographies
Anthony Burgess Speaks: 1985 (12)
(3/3) Anthony Burgess on the horror of returning to Manchester
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (Book Summary and Review) - Minute Book Report
Rusholme: Anthony Burgess in Manchester — Xaverian College
Anthony Burgess on A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess on English homosexualism 🇬🇧 omosessualità inglese
Anthony Burgess Speaks: 1975 — Jesus and Mary of Magdala

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