Anthony Burgess

(25 February 1917 - 25 November 1993) ; usually known as simply Anthony Burgess he also published under the names John Burgess Wilson and Joseph Kell.

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  • 'What's going to be then, eh?'
    There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard through dry.
    • A Clockwork Orange (1962)

  • It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his duty to show.
    • Introduction to 1986 American edition of A Clockwork Orange

  • The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
    • Introduction to 1986 American edition of A Clockwork Orange

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