Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English writer and composer. From relatively modest beginnings in a Catholic family in Manchester, he eventually became one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 February 1917
believe unforgivable-sin doe
Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing.
sex book three
The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter of a century ago, a jeu d'esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation.
america victory democracy
Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.
colonialism reason colonization
Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?
love life relationship
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
banking european lots scope
There is lots of scope for European banking deals.
english-novelist
He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
contract honor love mean promise
When we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract
novelist permitted
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
creators great
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.