Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon … - Anthony Burgess

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Is the man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

But what I do I do because I like to do.

My dear Hardman, It was pleasant... I am sorry that your Oriental venture has not been going as well as you expected. But, then, I think that the days when a man could expect to make his fortune in the East are dead and gone. Indeed, the time seems to have come for the reverse of the old process to apply, and for the East to dominate the West.

We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.