John Anthony Burgess Wilson, better known by his pen name Anthony Burgess, was an author and music composer from England, who is often counted among the greatest writers to have come out of the country in the last hundred years. Other than being a novelist, Burgess was a noted comic writer, broadcaster, essayist, critic, playwright and screenwriter that made him one of the famous individuals in England during his lifetime. Burgess’ most famous work is the novel ‘A Clockwork Orange’ that was later made into a hugely popular film by director Stanley Kubrick, in 1971. He was also a well-known translator and had translated ‘Oedipus the King’ and ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ among others. As a literary critic, he worked for ‘The Guardian’ and was regarded as an authoritative voice in the world of literature due to his standing as a leading novelist. Burgess, however, considered himself to be a music composer first and author second. During his life, he had composed in excess of 200 tunes and his work was quite well received at the time. Burgess is, however, immortalised because of his novels and remains an iconic figure to this day. Here are some of the selected quotes
Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?
Anthony Burgess
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
Anthony Burgess
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
Anthony Burgess
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
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 him?
But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there. ... And all that cal.
