If the world is to be improved it must be by the exercise of individual charity. - Anthony Burgess

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If the world is to be improved it must be by the exercise of individual charity.

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About Anthony Burgess

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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"The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. — — - "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986"
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