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Anthony Burgess Quotes

English writer and composer (1917–1993)

Anthony Burgess (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English writer and composer whose novels include the Malayan trilogy, A Clockwork Orange, the Enderby cycle, Nothing Like The Sun, Earthly Powers and The Kingdom Of The Wicked. He also produced critical works on Joyce, Lawrence, Hemingway and Shakespeare, and studies of language and of pornography.

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Pen Names: Джозеф Келл • Энтони Пауэл • Энтони Джилверн
Birth Name: John Anthony Burgess Wilson
Alternative Names: John Burgess Wilson • Joseph Kell

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Similar: Evelyn Waugh 70.7% Martin Amis 68.0% Robert Louis Stevenson 67.2% Norman Mailer 66.9% John Steinbeck 66.8% Stephen Fry 66.5% Robertson Davies 66.3% John Updike 65.8% Roger Zelazny 65.6% Kurt Vonnegut 65.6%
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But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?

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And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

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