Quotes by Burgess, Anthony

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, >>

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else. >>

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremend >>

Quotations about Violence

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me. >>

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, >>

Non violence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question >>

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

Burgess, Anthony