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Anthony Burgess Quotes


An English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.
John Burgess Wilson (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) — who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess — was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess' most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works. It was adapted into a highly controversial 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick; which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He was a prominent critic, writing acclaimed studies of classic writers such as William Shakespeare, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway.

Here are some famous quotes by Anthony Burgess.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

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Without class differences England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

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The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.

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John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.